0 past simple and past participle of empathize
1 to be able to understand how someone else feels:
It's very easy to empathize with the characters in her books.
Being listened to and empathized with were valuable in themselves, and patients and carers frequently expressed a need for someone to call on when they felt frightened.
She empathized with children, and viewed adults as irrational and strange.
Beames empathized with the local culture and aspirations and made decisive interventions in the comparative study of languages.
Another of the novel's goals was to dispel the common perception of predators as evil and portray them as creatures to be admired and empathized with.
