Wiktionary
vb. (context idiomatic English) To express sympathy for, to sympathise with.
WordNet
v. share the suffering of [syn: pity, compassionate, condole with, sympathize with]
Usage examples of "feel for".
He had stifled the agony he suffered, lest its expression should give pain to those who seemed to feel for him.
Then a horrible prompting--arising out of his former cowardice-- made him feel for the jack-knife with which one murder had already been committed.
He could walk around, get a feel for the type of action in his neighborhood, maybe come up with a few little sidelines the Fiend Downstairs couldn't find out about, figure out ways to skim a nice piece of the action off the top without getting caught.
Probing manually you get a gut feel for how the daemon running on that port behaves.
Her response time was amazingly fast, and her feel for her craft was instinctive.
I had no way to address his pain or his despair and my only hope was to let him know by my presence that I did feel for him and I did care.
I feel for you, kiddo, but you're going to have to take responsibility for what you did.