10 letters · 29 points in Scrabble
verb share the feelings of; understand the sentiments of
verb be understanding of
verb to feel or express sympathy or compassion
originBorrowed from French sympathiser. By surface analysis, sympathy + -ize. Displaced native Old English efnþrōwian (literally “to suffer with or together”).
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