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feel for

feel for someone . Sympathize with or feel sorry for someone, as in Tom was so upset that I felt for him . This usage was put as feel with by Shakespeare: “It resounds as if it felt with Scotland” ( Macbeth , 4:3). Both senses of feel for are present in the somewhat sarcastic I feel for you but I can't quite reach you , meaning “Too bad, but I don't really feel sorry for you.”
Grope, reach for with one's hands, as in It was pitch dark, and I felt for the doorknob . [Early 1700s]

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“I played a lot of running back in youth ball,” Schwesinger said, “so you just kind of end up getting a feel for where the backs are going to go.”

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I don’t think Harvey really plays a victim, but I think it’s a way to feel for him.

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"Just weirdly and oddly, I can't help but think about Maria all this time. I can't help but feel for her," said Williams.

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After responding to a leadoff single with his sixth strikeout of the game, Miller lost his feel for, what up to that point, had been an effective curveball.

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Rypel said he feels for the people whose livelihoods have been upended by the fishing closures.

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