Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense empathizes, present participle empathizing, past tense, past participle empathizedregional note: in BRIT, also use empathise
verb
If you empathizewith someone, you understand their situation, problems, and feelings, because you have been in a similar situation.
I clearly empathize with the people who live in those neighborhoods. [VERB + with]
Parents must make use of their natural ability to empathize. [VERB]
empathize in British English
or empathise (ˈɛmpəˌθaɪz)
verb
(intransitive)
to engage in or feel empathy
empathize in American English
(ˈɛmpəˌθaɪz)
verb transitiveWord forms: ˈempaˌthized or ˈempaˌthizing
to undergo or feel empathy (with another or others)
Word origin
< empathy, after sympathize
Examples of 'empathize' in a sentence
empathize
One can empathize with grief, for example, but not with a toothache.
Nabb, Magdalen, Vagheggi, Paolo PROSECUTOR (1993)
It feels almost brutal, in a way, for we can empathize readily with how thrilled the sisters must have been to have had Francis among them.