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FEEL FOR
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Share the suffering of
Synonyms:
compassionate; condole with; feel for; pity; sympathize with
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "feel for" is one way to...):
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "feel for"):
commiserate; sympathise; sympathize (to feel or express sympathy or compassion)
care (feel concern or interest)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
Sam cannot feel for Sue
Context examples:
Far down there in the orchestra circle was the one woman in all the world, so different, so terrifically different, from these two girls of his class, that he could feel for them only pity and sorrow.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Though I have no younger sister, I feel for her.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
No, he had already done that, which no man who CAN feel for another would do.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
“Miss Dartle,” said I, “if you can be so obdurate as not to feel for this afflicted mother—”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
What agonising fondness did I feel for them!
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
One should be a brute not to feel for the distress they are in; and from what I hear, poor Mr. Bertram has a bad chance of ultimate recovery.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Poor Edward! I feel for him sincerely.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
My dear, said Mr. Micawber; Copperfield, for so he had been accustomed to call me, of late, has a heart to feel for the distresses of his fellow-creatures when they are behind a cloud, and a head to plan, and a hand to—in short, a general ability to dispose of such available property as could be made away with.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In they both came, and Mrs. Price having kindly kissed her daughter again, and commented a little on her growth, began with very natural solicitude to feel for their fatigues and wants as travellers.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
