identify with
phrasal verbidentify with somebody
- to feel that you can understand and share the feelings of somebody else synonym sympathize
- I didn't enjoy the book because I couldn't identify with any of the main characters.
- I can't identify with men like him.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- accurately
- correctly
- rightly
- …
- be able to
- be unable to
- can
- …
- efforts to identify somebody/something
- a means of identifying somebody/something
- a way of identifying somebody/something
- …
- closely
- completely
- fully
- …
- can
- closely
- clearly
- increasingly
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identify somebody with something
- to consider somebody to be something
- He was not the ‘tough guy’ the public identified him with.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- accurately
- correctly
- rightly
- …
- be able to
- be unable to
- can
- …
- efforts to identify somebody/something
- a means of identifying somebody/something
- a way of identifying somebody/something
- …
- closely
- completely
- fully
- …
- can
- closely
- clearly
- increasingly
- …
identify something with something
- to consider something to be the same as something else synonym equate
- You should not identify wealth with happiness.