sympathise

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sympathise

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Borrowed from French sympathiser. By surface analysis, sympathy + -ise.

verb sympathises · sympathising · sympathised

  1. UK, nonstandard Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of sympathize ‘[…] who is to hunt up my witnesses? All of them are sailors, drafted off to other ships, except those whose evidence would go for very little, as they took part, or sympathised in the affair. […]’

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@misc{sympathise_2026,
  title = {sympathise},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sympathise},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}