noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a message of support/sympathy/congratulations etc
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Other celebrities sent messages of support.
a wave of panic/relief/sympathy
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A wave of relief washed over Harry.
an expression of sympathy
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There was no apology, no expression of sympathy for what Anna had suffered.
excite sympathy
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She sought to excite the jury's sympathy at every possible opportunity.
express your sympathy (= say that you feel sorry for someone who is in a bad situation )
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I wrote to his widow expressing our sympathy and sending her our condolences.
extended...sympathy
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The Coroner extended his sympathy to the victim’s family.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
certain
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Do you feel a certain sympathy with this point of view?
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One feels a certain sympathy for those selected to carry the torch in New Zealand.
considerable
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There is considerable sympathy for members of the public who commit some minor infringement under circumstances which are considered justifiable and understandable.
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I have considerable sympathy for what the two new clauses seek to do.
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I had considerable sympathy with the sentiment expressed in the poster.
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Also, and in sharp contrast with his attitude during the General Strike, he exhibited considerable sympathy for the miners.
deep
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Cruelty factor: 5 / 10 Please accept my deepest sympathy as respect of Mr David Cunningham.
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What there is instead is a deep sense of sympathy with those who have been damaged by the flood.
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With deep sympathy - get out!
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He wants to express his deep sympathy to the Humphreys family.
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We extend our deepest sympathy to her family.
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The rector offered his deepest sympathy to Richard's parents.
full
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When the child's father heard Kerry's story, he was full of sympathy and concern.
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The room is full of sympathy cards.
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Russell's screenplay is full of announced sympathy for ordinary people's lives, and actual condescension.
great
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People were unfailingly courteous and showed great sympathy - but throughout, all eyes were firmly on Abu Dhabi.
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I had great sympathy for his plight.
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Mr. Newton I have great sympathy with every point that my hon. Friend made.
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I have great sympathy for people who are suffering through private nightmares of hopelessness and loss.
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I have great sympathy for the police.
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Why the great sympathy for the criminals?
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The Hillsborough disaster seemed to encourage a period of self-reflection and greater public sympathy for the beleaguered game of soccer.
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Gary had much greater sympathy with the second camp than with the first.
little
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There were disgusted nods, but little sense of sympathy from either.
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A little more sympathy and better treatment options.
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This man had as little sympathy for the environment as a pike might have kind feelings towards a minnow.
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It also apparently has little sympathy from other areas of the world.
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Pleas about competition were regarded with much suspicion and little sympathy by the trade unions.
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Surprisingly little sympathy too - considering the discomfort haemorrhoids can cause.
public
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Indeed, they have probably risen in public sympathy precisely because they have been attacked and weakened.
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Prosecution only fed a growing public sympathy for her and her cause.
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Nowadays there is widespread public sympathy .
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The Hillsborough disaster seemed to encourage a period of self-reflection and greater public sympathy for the beleaguered game of soccer.
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Clarke engaged in a vigorous debate with the doctors but found public sympathy running against him.
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All the newspapers carried the story and there was a wave of public sympathy for him.
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Has increased public sympathy cost us too dear?
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There was much public sympathy for the miners in general, however rebarbative the personality and creed of Arthur Scargill himself.
real
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Once again I felt no real sympathy coming from him; simply his obsessive and inexplicable curiosity.
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The woman, on the other hand, would be hard to portray with any real sympathy .
special
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In such a small group the special sympathy between the two boys was obvious to all their companions.
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You are a man of special sympathy and intelligence, and I greatly respect you for it.
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He had a special sympathy for the underdog, and he enjoyed hobnobbing with all and sundry.
■ VERB
deserve
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He deserves some sympathy: how on earth could he deliver artistic goods that have the weight of his global charity work?
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The national media made her a heroine, status richly deserved , and the sympathy grew even more.
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She deserves sympathy in these present difficult times.
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She'd led me on, I didn't think she deserved my sympathy after that.
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They deserve our sympathy and help.
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Drug addicts do not deserve sympathy .
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One, motivated only by despair, deserves sympathy and time to absorb the full implication of last Thursday's election.
elicit
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That is why she elicits so much sympathy .
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Is he a human who elicits sympathy ?
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The longest story is so full of pathos that the joke lines elicit only sympathy , not laughter.
evoke
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A clingy, whiny child who evokes your sympathy .
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Some one suggested the Mayor of St Louis, Missouri, thinking that the consonance of names might perhaps evoke sympathy .
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Messily directed by John Schlesinger, it fails to evoke admiration or sympathy for its characters.
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I felt that the Zimmer frame parked alongside the court evoked a touch of sympathy .
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One gets exasperated with the Chamomilla child, unlike the Pulsatilla child who most often evokes one's sympathy .
excite
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There is no doubt that Zbo played on Modigliani's illness to excite sympathy in a way which the artist did not appreciate.
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Unfaithful husbands are the norm, while unfaithful wives excite no sympathy , just blame.
expect
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Ossis, mostly baffled by the society they thought they wanted, expect a sympathy most Wessis seem unable to muster.
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At best she had expected bland sympathy from him, but the sparks shooting in his eyes were genuine.
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Surely it can not expect to win sympathy for its cause.
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She shouts that if I get soaked I needn't expect sympathy , and I call for her to join me.
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Nomatterwhat difficulties he encounters within the system, he can expect no sympathy .
express
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Initially, Simpson said, King and Ryan expressed sympathy for her and vowed she could keep her job.
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I, too, express my sympathy to his family and to his fiance e and her family.
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He wants to express his deep sympathy to the Humphreys family.
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But some staff members have at one point expressed sympathy for a Valley secession.
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Mr Barter recorded a suicide verdict and expressed his sympathy to Mr Banks' family.
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Every man there expressed his sympathy .
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The various Nationalists had also expressed their sympathy for such a move.
extend
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We extend sympathy to his family.
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We extend our sympathy to Mrs Gladys Fisher, and to their son and daughter.
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On behalf of the Society members we extend our sympathy to June's husband Bob and her two sons.
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The historian does not extend his sympathy to the leaders.
feel
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We feel sympathy for the hero who is led astray under the influence of his false friend.
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Perhaps he felt sympathy towards some one struggling to hook ideas together.
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You might feel sympathy with her action and offer verbal or actual support.
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Rostov found it hard to feel sympathy for Grigoriev's predicament.
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Many feel a lack of sympathy for such obsession.
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Although we do feel sympathy for Blanche she seems to wallow in her self pity.
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You are made to feel sympathy at certain points of the book and hatred at others.
find
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This is a chord that finds sympathy in the public choice school.
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Shaun found no more sympathy when he made a quick dash to hospital.
gain
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He just limped around gaining more sympathy from his students by hinting what a brute his wife was.
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The ad gained Wellstone enough sympathy to squeak by with a 48, 000-vote margin.
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I'd hoped to gain sympathy from those idiotic journalists.
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It's a publicity stunt to gain sympathy .
offer
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It offered neither tea nor sympathy .
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I would offer him perfect sympathy , he would understand me the way no one else had.
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It was little Tero, turned out in the same paddock, offering silent sympathy .
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Unfortunately, there is always one person at these affairs who feels compelled to offer sympathy and encouragement.
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But Beatrix wrote again, offering her sympathy - and her help, if we needed it.
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Today she offered sympathy for the victims.
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People couldn't offer her expressions of sympathy .
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On behalf of the whole Society we offer our deep sympathy to Hilda and her family.
receive
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I received nothing but sympathy and understanding from them.
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He was fined $ 110, 000 and received an outpouring of sympathy at the time.
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His sacking is a clear message to other officers that they will receive no sympathy for their indiscretions.
show
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Like Nietzsche, Feuerbach frequently shows more sympathy for orthodox believers than for rationalizing modernist theologians.
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But Casper has shown sympathy for the students' cause.
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People were unfailingly courteous and showed great sympathy - but throughout, all eyes were firmly on Abu Dhabi.
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There were some people who might show sympathy towards the Jacobites even though they were not Jacobites themselves.
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He also showed cautious sympathy for homosexuals.
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However, Nottingham showed little sympathy and Pepper rubbed salt in their wounds.
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Law makers, givers and enforcers should show more understanding and sympathy in the face of intolerable provocation.
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Not one of the faces showed any sympathy towards him; all were determined that he should hang.
win
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Once again, it struck you that an actor was more likely to win sympathy from an audience than a slack-jawed garrulous Balaclava.
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Initially, Peter won the sympathy of a few board members with his critique of the program s academic standards.
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Surely it can not expect to win sympathy for its cause.
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And he had confided in Patricia with the subconscious desire of winning from her sympathy and condolence.
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Soon after taking office Reagan won much popular sympathy when he was shot and wounded in an assassination attempt.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
tea and sympathy
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It was possible, of course, that she wanted to dispense tea and sympathy, but he had his doubts.
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Who would it hurt if we let ourselves be led via tea and sympathy to booze and bed?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I'm not asking for sympathy .
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Relatives of the aircrash victims were treated with great sympathy .
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She looked at him with sympathy .
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The Prime Minister expressed outrage at the attack, and sympathy for the families of the victims.
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The trip also is intended to raise money and sympathy for the plight of the Tibetan people.
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You have my deepest sympathy , and my thoughts are with you.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By showing the parts that came to make the whole, Albee allows for sympathy .
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Five hundred spectators groaned in sympathy .
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Garrison, in sympathy , sat with them for the rest of the convention.
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He's about as likely to have sympathy for the devil as he is to have satisfaction.
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Now he began to wonder if his sympathy was misplaced.
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The best writers manage to have sympathy for all their characters; there is always more than one side to represent.
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The longest story is so full of pathos that the joke lines elicit only sympathy , not laughter.
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There was no cause for any sympathy at that time.