0 present participle of sympathize
1 to understand and care about someone's problems:
2 to support and agree with someone or something:
I sympathize with the general aims of the organization, but on this particular issue I disagree.
Wyvern justifies keeping the poor ignorant by sympathizing with the pain education would cause them.
There is something troubling about the transition from sympathizing with the victim to sympathizing with the victimizer.
Neighborhoods become divided, sympathizing with those whose piety had earned them great admiration but frightened that their sympathy might make them suspect, as well.
This process is highly related to compassion because sympathizing with others is possible with people from other countries, cultures, locations, etc.
The observer finds himself sympathizing with the district's abandonment, and indifference to time.
At least one woman staff physician pleaded for sympathizing care, saying it could do more to change a life than moralistic rejection.
She gives expression to her desolation, amid the sympathizing sorrow of her companions.
Those sympathizing with the government have generally agreed with the move.