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empathize

 verb
     
em‧pa‧thize also empathise British English [intransitive]
to be able to understand someone else's feelings, problems etc, especially because you have had similar experiences [↪ sympathize]
empathize with
My mother died last year so I can really empathize with what he's going through.
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