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# sympathize

«sympathize» in Mova's school dictionary: **to feel for someone in trouble, or to understand their…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (sympathize, sympathizes, sympathized, sympathizing); American spelling of «sympathise»

### meaning for a pupil

1) To sympathize is to feel for someone in trouble, or to understand their feelings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathize/#m1)

2) To sympathize with an idea is to support it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathize/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales a person who shares another's trouble or trusts their side; in lessons the same meaning as «sympathise», in the American spelling

### examples

- The policeman sympathized with the old man. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathize/#x1)
- No one sympathized with his little plan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathize/#x2)
- We sympathize with you quite as much. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathize/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sympathize» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathize/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.