0 to understand sb’s problems and feel sorry for them -- sympatisere
1 to show or feel sympathy to -- vise forståelse for, ha medfølelse
We sympathize with the rich, not the poor.
In his account, we sympathize with those like us.
Perhaps, he suggests, only billionaires can sympathize with others in the same league?
He sympathizes with those who passionately desire peace but can not be appeased by anything, such as heretics, sectarians and mystics.
He said he sympathized with them, but denied any formal connection.
Furthermore, many industrial workers were themselves former farm labourers and sympathized with the plight of those toiling the lands.
The rebels managed to get inside the emperor's palace as they were let in by eunuchs who sympathized with their cause.
He sympathizes on her and asks her to tell her story.