"sympathise" meaning in English

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          "text": "‘[…] who is to hunt up my witnesses? All of them are sailors, drafted off to other ships, except those whose evidence would go for very little, as they took part, or sympathised in the affair. […]’",
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          "text": "And yet, though the happiness may be unenduring, what heart, though seared by time and worldly care, can fail to sympathise with those emotions of early life? In after years there are none such. They are the high noon of earthly joy. After them, life goes on decayingly and solemnly to its shadowy sunset.",
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          "text": "Dahl insisted there was no racist intent behind the Oompa Loompas but also said he found himself sympathising with the NAACP.",
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