1. to feel or express compassion or understanding for someone’s suffering or difficulties
Usage: British spelling
2. to support or agree with an opinion, cause, or person
Usage: British spelling

Examples

• I sympathise with your loss and offer my condolences.
• Many people sympathise with the workers’ demands for better pay.
• She found it hard to sympathise with his complaints about wealth.
• The teacher sympathised with the student’s struggle to understand math.
• I don’t sympathise with people who break the law.
• We sympathise with the victims of the natural disaster.