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empathy
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Part of me empathized with Moody.†

empathized = understood or shared in another's feelings

standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
Helen empathized, but she was simply powerless to help.†
"I told her she is not being fair," Moody said to me, his voice now filled with gentleness and empathy.†
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empathy = the ability or tendency to understand or share in others' feelings
I saw nothing but deep empathy.†
Both of them had complete freedom to move about the country and to leave Iran whenever they wished, but they empathized with my plight and wanted to help.†

empathized = understood or shared in another's feelings

standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
I bore the empathy of motherhood in my heart.†

empathy = the ability or tendency to understand or share in others' feelings
There was genuine empathy in her eyes and in her demeanor, but there was also the cultivated wariness of the Iranian woman.†
The lady pasdar grew pensive and empathetic.†

Definitions:

(1) (empathy)
the ability, tendency, or act of understanding and sharing another's emotional state
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)