empathize

🇺🇸 /ˈempəθaɪz/ 🇬🇧 /ˈempəθaɪz/
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verb
R

To share and understand another person's feelings by imagining what it would be like to experience their situation.

It's hard to empathize with someone who has gone through a tragedy if you've never experienced something similar.

translation

v. To share and understand another person's feelings by imagining what it would be like to experience their situation.

Word Forms

3rd Present empathizes
Past empathized
Perfect empathized
Progressive empathizing