- identify with someone
- identify with (someone)
to understand and feel sympathy for someone.
Ordinary people can identify with him in many ways, mainly because he talks to voters like an ordinary person.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
identify with someone
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identify with — (someone) to understand and feel sympathy for someone. Ordinary people can identify with him in many ways, mainly because he talks to voters like an ordinary person … New idioms dictionary
identify with — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms identify with : present tense I/you/we/they identify with he/she/it identifies with present participle identifying with past tense identified with past participle identified with 1) identify with someone to… … English dictionary
identify with — [v] put oneself in the place of another ally, associate, empathize, feel for*, put in same category*, put oneself in another’s shoes*, relate to, respond to, see through someone’s eyes*, sympathize, think of in connection*, understand; concepts… … New thesaurus
identify with — regard oneself as sharing the same characteristics or thinking as (someone else). → identify … English new terms dictionary
identify — i|den|ti|fy [ aı dentı,faı ] verb transitive *** 1. ) to recognize someone and be able to say who they are: Two of the suspects have been identified by witnesses. identify someone as something: He identified the dead woman as his wife. a ) to… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
identify — [[t]aɪde̱ntɪfaɪ[/t]] ♦♦ identifies, identifying, identified 1) VERB If you can identify someone or something, you are able to recognize them or distinguish them from others. [V n] There are a number of distinguishing characteristics by which you… … English dictionary
identify — ► VERB (identifies, identified) 1) establish the identity of. 2) recognize or select by analysis. 3) (identify with) regard oneself as sharing the same characteristics or thinking as (someone else). 4) (identify with) associate (someone or… … English terms dictionary
identify — [ī den′tə fī΄] vt. identified, identifying [LL identificare: see IDENTITY & FY] 1. to make identical; consider or treat as the same [to identify one s interests with another s] 2. to recognize as being or show to be the very person or thing known … English World dictionary
identify — i|den|ti|fy W1 [aıˈdentıfaı] v past tense and past participle identified present participle identifying third person singular identifies [T] [Date: 1600 1700; : Late Latin; Origin: identificare, from Latin idem; IDENTITY] 1.) to recognize and… … Dictionary of contemporary English
identify — verb ADVERB ▪ accurately, correctly, rightly ▪ The new test will enable us to identify more accurately patients who are most at risk. ▪ Did you identify all the pictures correctly? ▪ falsely … Collocations dictionary
