Sympathize \Sym"pa*thize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sympathized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Sympathizing.]
[F. sympathiser. See
Sympathy.]
1. To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.
The mind will sympathize so much with the anguish
and debility of the body, that it will be too
distracted to fix itself in meditation.
--Buckminster.
2. To feel in consequence of what another feels; to be
affected by feelings similar to those of another, in
consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected.
Their countrymen . . . sympathized with their heroes
in all their adventures. --Addison.
3. To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize. --Dryden.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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