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empathize

US/ˈɛmpəˌθaɪz/

empathize verb: to feel empathy for another person.

Verb

empathize (third-person singular simple present empathizes, present participle empathizing, simple past and past participle empathized)

  1. (intransitive) to feel empathy for another person
    • empathize with someone
    • Must have been […] devastating when Kenny was killed. But I want you to know that you can trust me. I understand you. I empathize.2001, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Alias, season 1, episode 3

empathize meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Vietnamese

empathize in Tamil

பச்சாதாபம் காட்டு

empathize in Malayalam

sympathize, identify, be in sympathy
താദാത്മ്യം പ്രാപിക്കുക, തന്മയീഭവിക്കുക, താദാത്മ്യപ്പെടുക, അനുകമ്പ തോന്നുക, സഹതപിക്കുക, അനുതപിക്കുക

empathize in Vietnamese

to feel empathy for another person
đồng cảm, thấu cảm

Forms of empathize

third-person singular presentempathizes
present participleempathizing
past participleempathized
pastempathized
alternative formempathise

Past tense of empathize: empathized

Words formed from empathize

Questions about empathize

What does empathize mean?
Empathize means to feel empathy for another person.
What is empathize in Tamil?
Empathize in Tamil is பச்சாதாபம் காட்டு. See Empathize meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is empathize?
Empathize is a verb.
How do you pronounce empathize?
Empathize is pronounced /ˈɛmpəˌθaɪz/ (US).
What is the past tense of empathize?
The past tense of empathize is empathized.

Words near empathize in the dictionary

  1. empathisers
  2. empathises
  3. empathising
  4. empathist
  5. empathists
  6. empathize
  7. empathized
  8. empathizer
  9. empathizers
  10. empathizes
  11. empathizing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: empathize (page history and authors); empathize (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); empathize (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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