If you sympathize with someone's feelings, you understand them and are not critical of them. Some Europeans sympathize with the Americans over the issue He liked Max, and sympathized with his ambitions
sym·pa·thize sympathizes sympathizing sympathized in BRIT, also use sympathise1. If you sympathize with someone who is in a bad situation, you show that you are sorry for them. I must tell you how much I sympathize with you for your loss, Professor He would sympathize but he wouldn't understand
To feel in consequence of what another feels; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected
If you sympathize with a proposal or action, you approve of it and are willing to support it. Most of the people living there sympathized with the guerrillas