## Meanings
1. To feel or show that you understand and share someone's sadness or troubles.
2. To understand and accept someone's feelings or point of view.
3. To support or agree with a cause, side, or movement.

## Examples
- I really sympathize with you after such a difficult year.
- I can sympathize with her decision, even if I would have chosen differently.
- Many young voters sympathize with the new party.

## Derived Forms
- sympathizer
- sympathizingly

## Related Forms
- sympathetic
- sympathy

## Etymology
Borrowed from French sympathiser. By surface analysis, sympathy + -ize. Displaced native Old English efnþrōwian (literally “to suffer with or together”).

## AI Etymology
Sympathize is borrowed from French sympathiser. By surface analysis, sympathy + -ize. Displaced native Old English efnþrōwian (literally “to suffer with or together”). In present-day use, it can mean to feel or show that you understand and share someone's sadness or troubles, or to understand and accept someone's feelings or point of view. Derived formations include sympathizer, sympathizingly.

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