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What is the verb for empathy?

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empathise
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of empathize.
  2. Examples:
    1. “So I can only empathise with farmers who have lost entire herds of cattle or flocks of sheep.”
      “This is not a film that asks you to empathise with or even understand the coroner.”
      “I may not like the fact he is considering it, but I can understand it and empathise with him.”
empathize
empathises
empathizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of empathize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There is an obvious parallel to Godzilla, a mega monster movie that at times empathizes with the monster.”
      “With the snaking little lovelorn bit about feeling lost and lonely, it empathizes, then gives a pep-talk kick in the pants.”
      “For all that separates her experience from that of a factory worker on an assembly line in Shenzhen, she empathizes with the factory worker.”
empathized
empathised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of empathise
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The hang allows us to move from their work directly to pieces by artists with whose ideas they might have empathised.”
      “And once they've empathised with them, they should take away their benefits, because only by removing benefits can people explore their humanity.”
      “One senses how the Lord empathised with the predicament of this deaf man and the anguish of his friends.”
empathising
  1. present participle of empathise
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I went with the flow, and discovered simple delight in empathising with the fresh and heady Helen.”
      “More specifically, as regards the relocation of its clients into urban Leeds, will there be an automatic, unhesitating public welcome, a warm empathising embrace?”
      “By putting ourselves in other's shoes and empathising, we gain respect for them and their God-given humanity.”
empathizing
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