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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sympathizer
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ His opponents accused him of being a Nazi sympathizer.
▪ In the 1940s, my uncle was accused of being a Nazi sympathizer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He thought money from sympathizers had formed the reliable backbone, though he wasn't going to argue with Terry.
▪ Police accused him of being a rebel sympathizer and he was charged with extortion and resisting arrest.
▪ She found only one - a woman who feels betrayed by sympathizers in the West.
▪ The initial bone of contention was the question of the terms on which sympathizers should be admitted to the Party.
▪ These include massacres and dislocation of civilians in the name of rooting out supposed guerrilla sympathizers.
▪ When friends and sympathizers of this group protested, they too were sent home.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sympathizer

Sympathizer \Sym"pa*thi`zer\, n. One who sympathizes.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sympathizer

1815, agent noun from sympathize.

Wiktionary
sympathizer

a. Who sympathizes (with something). n. A person who sympathizes (with something).

WordNet
sympathizer
  1. n. commiserates with someone who has had misfortune [syn: sympathiser, comforter]

  2. someone who shares your feelings and expresses sympathy or hopes that something will be successful [syn: sympathiser, well-wisher]

Usage examples of "sympathizer".

Pro-democracy Iranian bloggers joined their Western sympathizers to express their anger at the injustice.

Arlai had intercepted official dispatches to Duke Huch about the growing resistance organization dedicated to harboring Dushau and their sympathizers.

In nearly every part of the earth the nuclei had prepared a personnel of sympathizers and auxiliaries, varying in character with local conditions, outside the ranks of the Fellowship.

Edward Shippen, her father, was a Tory sympathizer, but not a particularly ardent one.

The shishi yawned and pulled his own cloak around his shoulders when a light shower began, shifting his stool under the awning of the street stall that served noodles and soup and tea and was owned by a sympathizer.

Then there were the unrespectable people--the Klan, the Nazi sympathizers left over from the American Bundt days of the big war, the small-town radio ministers, the pamphleteers of every description.

The grand jury subsequently indicted, and the report running tonight was on how the men defrauded the public by trying to blame the attack on antiabortion sympathizers and using a volatile issue for their own gain.

They had come there first twenty years earlier, this lovely spot where a sixteenth-century diplomat from Naples, Bernardo di Maggiore, was ambushed by Aragonese sympathizers and accused of siding against them in a conflict with the pope.

Naples, Bernardo di Maggiore, was ambushed by Aragonese sympathizers and accused of siding against them in a conflict with the pope.

Soon we shall root out every traitor and Asura sympathizer in the kingdom.

Earthpeace needed a sympathizer like Babcock to win the presidency in order to boost its waning celebrity.

One of my men identified him as a Chicom sympathizer who has been organizing antiwar meetings at the University.

A couple of counterrevolutionary sympathizers who were assigned to report on the number of bodies buried each day were watching, and they took him to a place where he could be cared for, and that is where he has stayed ever since.

The majority of the Fenian troops were without means of subsistence, and became a charge upon the authorities and their sympathizers.

Toronto will well remember, they had for neighbors years ago some who were keen sympathizers with the Fenians, and whose relatives were seen in Fenian processions in Chicago and other American cities.