Verb (used without object), : His ability to empathize with people made him an excellent marriage counselor.    From Dictionary.com. 

Ann. Perhaps you mean 'empathise', rather than emphasise.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

I mean, we have all been there and could empathise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret World of Guys : Scrubbles.net] Reference

How on earth can an English lefty empathise with that?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Temper, Temper !] Reference

I empathise with you 'BBC induced stress' experiences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference

I ask whether he can empathise with Mel's frustrations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Goldblum: the Buddha of Hollywood] Reference

We can empathise with what you have found in your career.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

We hardly have a perfect system over here, so I empathise!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Important Battles « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference

But James I perfectly empathise with the way you responded.    From Wordnik.com.  [To A Homeless Man and His Dog, Merry Christmas] Reference

I empathise with that because I definitely went through it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martina Navratilova battles the test of time] Reference

Hamid Karzai made an attempt to empathise with Gordon Brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

I can definitely empathise with some of the travelling woes.    From Wordnik.com.  [What My Dark Side Did On Holiday « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference

I was too young to understand or to empathise, unfortunately.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sinatra The Man Behind the Myth]

I empathise with your grandparents feelings about your leader.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reader reviews of On Hitler's Mountain by Irmgard Hunt.] Reference

Phil: You never know, he may empathise with these scenarios ... phil.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

I empathise actually, although I'd move the decimal point the other way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference

I empathise with elephants, and do not enjoy the thought of them being killed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giant killers: macropredation in lions] Reference

You can empathise (inside) but empathising too openly can be really dangerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Help? « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference

"The judges are men, so they empathise with their men folk," observes Mwiimbe.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Yet one can only empathise with the vulnerability of workers at such trying times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six takes on the wildcat strikes] Reference

I found the acting to be so good and I could empathise with all the characters so much.    From Wordnik.com.  [sheepdip Diary Entry] Reference

Those are the parts of the brain that think rationally, empathise, and exercise self-control.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Hari: Children Who Kill Never Had A Chance] Reference

Benítez may have appeared offbeat but he was straining to empathise with the Liverpool support.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inter's Rafael Benítez uses 'milk' analogy to turn sour on Liverpool] Reference

It is touching on how can we all empathise with such a remarkable figure most people misunderstand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Beneath My Wings] Reference

That must have been some conversation Kotarac was determined to have and I, for one, can empathise.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Hague could learn from Robbie Williams] Reference

It was a sincere attempt to empathise with this woman (who has, she said, ten children to support).    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

Then there's the kind that empathise with others 'thinking, and can pitch a complex subject to suit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smartness and Communication] Reference

Overthinking is exactly the right word, and I empathise entirely with doing it outside the situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [In The Run-Up « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference

I have kids their age, and I can empathise with what they are going through every night and every day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » 60 Minutes: CIA Official Reveals Bush, Cheney, Rice Were Personally Told Iraq Had No WMD in Fall 2002] Reference

If customers feel that staff empathise with them, goes the theory, they're more likely to buy more books.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary] Reference

Facts explain how things happened but it is the imagination that enables us to empathise with what happened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharon Dogar: Are We Allowed to Imagine the Holocaust?] Reference

It is a challenge to empathise with a manager earning £5m or more per year, but these are demanding times for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wes Brown snub is yet another blow for embattled Fabio Capello] Reference

In other words you need to make them empathise with you and your product and recognise that they too need the product.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taylor’s a Feminist – But So Is James] Reference

Obvs the aim is to have more than 65% of the list (as reflected by paranoid entrepreneurs i empathise with in the comments).    From Wordnik.com.  [How Do You Score High in IQ Tests ?] Reference

I can empathise with your brother standing on on his new decking on the Highgate heights gazing out and down across London.    From Wordnik.com.  [Like A Thunderbolt he Falls] Reference

You didn't have to like them, but you could empathise with the horror of the unfolding unknown, and mad, threatening texts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rewind TV: Derren Brown: Hero at 30,000 Feet; U Be Dead; Mad Men; Bouquet of Barbed Wire; This is England '86] Reference

There are several things I feel are issues that you as men and women in the business world today will be able to empathise with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra] Reference

A mass of truly horrible characters none of whom I can empathise with, doing truly horrible stuff, none of which I can sympathise with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death carries a camcorder] Reference