sympathise


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Synonyms for sympathise

share the feelings of

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to feel or express sympathy or compassion

be understanding of

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NatWest has now responded to the incident - saying it "sympathises" with Mrs Birk's situation while also advising customers to be vigilant.
Currently, 79 per cent of Republicans say they sympathise more with Israel than the Palestinians, compared with just 27 per cent of Democrats.
I have to sympathise with his wife - he shows her no respect Emma bond yesterday in shrewsbury, shrops
Traore is another I can sympathise with as he has looked bright when he has featured but is another that has also struggled with injury and, apparently, isn't ready to start in the Premier League, according to both Sherwood and Garde.
The gossip suggests that the 'liKe' option would metamorphosis into 'sympathise' on certain posts.
I SYMPATHISE with Nicola Porter, the mum who feels compelled to keep her young son from school because he was punished for misbehaving (Luis, 6, kept home in kebab row, ECHO September 23).
"There appears to be disproportionate targeting of the route to Holyhead compared to other UK ports and I sympathise with the port.
The source said: "The kidnappers sympathise with the families of the captives but they also call on them to sympathise with the families of the man imprisoned by coalition forces."
One can sympathise with the police who face a hopeless task, but let us not sympathise with rotten local and national politicians and a legal system that sent Tony Martin to prison and plans to reward his criminal attackers.
The Governor who was in the hospital to sympathise with his supporters who were affected by the gas explosion in the town directed that the victims be transferred to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH) Bauchi or the Air Force Hospital, Bauchi.
I SYMPATHISE with the beliefs of former NuLab Tory-Lite MPs, such as David Miliband (Miliband hits out at unelectable Corbyn, Sept 23), who have demonstrated more in tune with the Conservative Party and with the views of Mr Peter "Grand Pooh-Bah of British Politics" Mandelson (who felt "intensely relaxed at people becoming filthy rich"), than they have ever done with traditional Labour party values.
SYMPATHISE Those who persist in the belief that alcoholics should just pull themselves together and go on the wagon simply don't understand, let alone sympathise.
From where we stand, we could sympathise with that view.
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