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Past tense of empathize

regular verb

The past tense of empathize is empathized. The past participle is also empathized.

Forms of empathize

Base form (V1)empathize /ˈɛmpəˌθaɪz/
Past tense (V2)empathized
Past participle (V3)empathized
Present participleempathizing
Third person singularempathizes

Meaning of empathize

  1. verb To feel empathy for another person.

Full definition of empathize

Questions about the past tense of empathize

What is the past tense of empathize?
The past tense of empathize is empathized.
What is the past participle of empathize?
The past participle of empathize is empathized.
Is empathize a regular or irregular verb?
Empathize is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: empathize (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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