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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
empathize
verb
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▪ I tried to empathize with their own differing emotional reactions and the fact that they were falling into their own traps again.
▪ Most of all, I empathize with the trade-offs they made, or had to make.
▪ No two humans ever communicated to the fullest extent if they did not empathize with the mind of the other.
▪ Parents need to continue to empathize with the child.
▪ She could certainly empathize with this situation and her sympathies were not with the weeping marine.
▪ They can be written about in such a way that some one else is able to empathize with them.
▪ You can easily begin empathizing with situations you only imagine.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
empathize

1894, from empathy + -ize. By 1919 in psychology. Related: Empathized; empathizing.

Wiktionary
empathize

alt. (context intransitive English) to feel empathy for another person vb. (context intransitive English) to feel empathy for another person

WordNet
empathize

v. be understanding of; "You don't need to explain--I understand!" [syn: sympathize, sympathise, empathise, understand]

Usage examples of "empathize".

When a person is adaptable and satiable, capable of realistic planning and empathizing with his fellow beings, those problems that remain turn out to be mostly physiochemical or behavioral.

The wraith gasps and almost falls off the monitor as if he can totally empathize with the dextral flare.

He empathized with the latter group who made the household run smoothly and efficiently, while scorning those dithery sorts who were forever misplacing their parasols and white kid gloves.

The outlook of mature lawbreakers he could understand, if not empathize with.

When a person is adaptable and satiable, capable of realistic planning and empathizing with his fellow beings, those problems that remain turn out to be mostly physiochemical or behavioral.

What she needs is someone to be with her as she goes down, to listen to her while she shares her feelings, and to empathize with what she is going through.

Most neurologists do, so we can better understand these conditions and empathize with our patients.

At the White Flag raffle-break Gately usually stands around chainsmoking with the Ennet House residents, so that he's casually available to answer questions and empathize with complaints.

In order to stay out of thick clumps of bushes, he had to take countless turns and uphill and downhill circumnavigations until he began to empathize with mountain goats.

Andrew had to admit that Achille was better at it, but then Achille had always had the peculiar ability to empathize perfectly with anyone.

The moments of terror are no longer terrifying because we empathize with the victim, but are rather fascinating because we want to see what creative new method of mayhem the writer and art director have come up with.

The goals they aspired to differed from the ones she valued, since rather than seeking to reconcile with their emotions, they sought to minimize them, to emphasize systemizing behavior over empathizing and approach a cognitive state that in most species would approximate high-function autism.

He empathized, and it was he, it seemed, who went horizontal in midair and then drifted down in shame and hurt until the hard floor slammed into his back through the utility pack.

These were the people whom Michael loved more than his own race or class, the people with whom he empathized and for whom he agonized.

He empathized with the emotions Wulfgar was feeling as the young man gazed out over the plains of his homeland for the first time in years.