0 past simple and past 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.
Supervisors supervised, colleagues sympathized, friends helped, libraries and archives communicated, publishers published.
Although most syndicalists in non-belligerent countries clearly sympathized with the democracies, they declined to invoke these sympathies to justify intervention.
Others sympathized with the more radical student demands.
One way of gauging whether vestrymen sympathized with those they assisted is to measure the level of relief allowed to the poor.
Sanetaka sympathized with her, but said nothing.
He said—and we probably all sympathized and agreed with him—that liability for military service would be a bar to emigration.
He sympathized with the moderate wing of the party and was sharply critical of the radicals.
The rebels managed to get inside the emperor's palace as they were let in by eunuchs who sympathized with their cause.
