Usually means: Feel understanding or compassion for.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. sympathise: Merriam-Webster
  2. sympathise: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sympathise: Vocabulary.com
  4. sympathise: Wordnik
  5. sympathise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sympathise: Wiktionary
  7. sympathise: Dictionary.com
  8. sympathise: Rhymezone
  9. sympathise: FreeDictionary.org
  10. sympathise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. sympathise: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sympathise: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sympathise: Medical dictionary

(Note: See sympathises as well.)

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verb:  Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of sympathize. [(intransitive) To have, show or express sympathy; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected; to commiserate.]

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