sympathize

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To have, show or express sympathy; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected

   “Some old people keep young at heart in spite of wrinkles and gray hairs, can sympathize with children’s little cares and joys, make them feel at home, and can hide wise lessons under pleasant plays, giving and receiving friendship in the sweetest way.”

2. fiil To support, favour, have sympathy (with a political cause or movement, a side in a conflict / in an action).

   “‘[…] who is to hunt up my witnesses? All of them are sailors, drafted off to other ships, except those whose evidence would go for very little, as they took part, or sympathised in the affair. […]’”

3. fiil To say in an expression of sympathy.

   ““How much he slapped my sons—you should see their swollen faces, Panditji,” said Dukhi. […] “Poor children,” sympathized Pandit Lallaram.”

4. fiil 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.”

5. fiil To share (a feeling or experience).

   “And all that are assembled in this place, That by this sympathized one day’s error Have suffer’d wrong, go keep us company, And we shall make full satisfaction.”

6. fiil To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize.

   “Henry V. The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes, And by his hollow whistling in the leaves Foretells a tempest and a blustering day. Henry IV. Then with the losers let it sympathize, For nothing can seem foul to those that win.”