Definition of "sympathize with" []

• Share the suffering of (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "This candid State of my Situation and feelings I give to your Bosom, because you who have already felt and suffered so much will be able to sympathize with me."
• "MORTON PRINCE, Boston: I sympathize with Dr. Putnam in his interest in philosophical problems, my only conflict with his point of view being with what I conceive to be a mixing of problems."
• "George was heartily disposed to sympathize with any one who had escaped from Legree's plantation, -- a place that he could not remember or speak of with patience, -- and, with the courageous disregard of consequences which is characteristic of his age and state, he assured her that he would do all in his power to protect and bring them through."