1. to feel or express compassion or understanding for someone’s suffering or difficulties
2. to share or understand someone’s feelings, opinions, or ideas
3. to support or agree with a cause, movement, or person

Examples

• I sympathize with your loss and want you to know I’m here for you.
• Many people sympathize with the workers’ demands for better wages.
• She couldn’t help but sympathize with the character’s struggles in the novel.
• The teacher sympathized with the student’s difficulty learning math.
• He sympathizes with environmental causes and donates regularly to conservation groups.
• I sympathize with your frustration about the delayed flight.
• The community sympathized with the family after the house fire.