"feel for" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "feels for",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "feeling for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "felt for",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "felt for",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I feel for him: he’s lost two family members in two months.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To experience sympathy for, to sympathise with."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "experience",
          "experience"
        ],
        [
          "sympathy",
          "sympathy"
        ],
        [
          "sympathise",
          "sympathise"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To experience sympathy for, to sympathise with."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to express sympathy for, to sympathise with",
          "word": "mitfühlen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to express sympathy for, to sympathise with",
          "word": "együttérez"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "81 19",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "sočuvstvovatʹ",
          "sense": "to express sympathy for, to sympathise with",
          "word": "сочувствовать"
        }
      ]
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        {
          "text": "He felt for his purse.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1896, Stephen Wyke, The Yorkshire Cousins, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, Limited, →OCLC, page 15:",
          "text": "Harry felt for his purse in his left-hand trousers pocket, but it was not there. He then tried his right-hand trousers pocket, but it was not there. He then tested the left hand pocket of his vest, but it was not there. He then explored the right-hand pocket of his vest, but it was not there. He then darted a h and into each of the pockets of his shooting-jacket, but it was not there.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To search for something by touching (as with one’s hand in a bag)."
      ],
      "id": "en-feel_for-en-verb-NmiHaiKS",
      "links": [
        [
          "search",
          "search"
        ],
        [
          "touch",
          "touch"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To search for something by touching (as with one’s hand in a bag)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "5 95",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "search for something by touching",
          "word": "pripalpi"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "word": "feel for"
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    },
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    },
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      ],
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        {
          "text": "I feel for him: he’s lost two family members in two months.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To experience sympathy for, to sympathise with."
      ],
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          "experience",
          "experience"
        ],
        [
          "sympathy",
          "sympathy"
        ],
        [
          "sympathise",
          "sympathise"
        ]
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) To experience sympathy for, to sympathise with."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
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        },
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        }
      ],
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        "To search for something by touching (as with one’s hand in a bag)."
      ],
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          "touch",
          "touch"
        ]
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        "(idiomatic) To search for something by touching (as with one’s hand in a bag)."
      ],
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    }
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to express sympathy for, to sympathise with",
      "word": "mitfühlen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to express sympathy for, to sympathise with",
      "word": "együttérez"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sočuvstvovatʹ",
      "sense": "to express sympathy for, to sympathise with",
      "word": "сочувствовать"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "search for something by touching",
      "word": "pripalpi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "feel for"
}