to feel someone's pain
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5.5
- idiom
:
sentir el dolor de alguien
- This allows us to feel the other person's distress or pain as our own.
Examples
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You don't know what it's like to feel my pain.
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In moments of grief, it's important to feel someone's pain and offer support.
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- Just listen and try and feel their pain.
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Now, you feel my pain.
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Do you feel my pain too ?
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I can feel their pain.
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Can you feel my pain?
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Thanks to you, I became an attorney who feels my clients' pain.
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She wants others to feel her pain.
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I feel her pain.
Synonyms
96
3.5
To feel or show care and understanding for someone who is unhappy
83
3.0
Have sympathy for someone who is suffering
48
4.9
To understand and share another person's feelings by imagining what they feel
44
3.4
To feel sorry for someone and understand their pain
20
6.8
To understand when someone is having a hard time and show you care
15
7.0
To feel or show sympathy for someone who is suffering
1
3.9
To care about someone or something and want to help them
1
7.6
To feel deep sadness and pity for someone who is suffering
Antonyms
How Empathetic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to empathize deeply with someone's suffering' is directly derivable from combining 'feel' (to experience) with 'someone's' (possessive) and 'pain' (suffering); it literally means to experience another person's pain. This compositional pattern is common across languages and follows regular English grammar, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily understand it.
Etymology
The idiom feel someone's pain comes from the clear image of placing your hand where a person is hurt so you can feel their pain with them. So, it means 'to understand and share someone's suffering'.