Definition of "sympathized" [sympathized]

• Simple past tense and past participle of sympathize. (verb)

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• "It was exceptionally repulsive in the first place, but the violent blow on the nose had caused that organ to assume double its original proportion, and there was a puffy, bulbous look about the whole countenance which showed how strongly it "sympathized" with the injured part."
• "Sternbane was the only member of the public who spoke on the proposal, but supervisors sympathized with nonsmokers, who sometimes have to share the confined spaces with people who pass the time by smoking."
• "Englishmen and Americans raised on the classics sympathized with those they took to be descendants of Pericles."