sympathise

verb6

1. •
   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 feel for.

   • “I can’t quite sympathise with your mother in all her feelings about this marriage, because I do not think that I recognise as she does the necessity of money.” — 1873
2. •
   To support, favour, have sympathy (with a political cause or movement, a side in a conflict / in an action).

   • ‘[…] who is to hunt up my witnesses? All of them are sailors, drafted off to other ships, except those whose evidence would go for very little, as they took part, or sympathised in the affair. […]’ — 1855
3. •
   To say in an expression of sympathy.

   • “How much he slapped my sons—you should see their swollen faces, Panditji,” said Dukhi. […] “Poor children,” sympathized Pandit Lallaram. — 1995
4. •
   To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.

   • […] the mind will sympathize so much with the anguish and debility of the body, that it will be […] too distracted to fix itself in meditation. — 1814
5. •
   To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize.

   • Green, for example, is a pleasing Colour, which may come from a blue and a yellow mix’d together, and by consequence blue and yellow are two Colours which sympathize: — 1695
6. •
   (no longer used) To share (a feeling or experience).

   • And all that are assembled in this place, That by this sympathized one day’s error Have suffer’d wrong, go keep us company, And we shall make full satisfaction. — 1594