identify with phrasal verb (see also identify)

1. identify with somebody/something to feel sympathy with someone or be able to share their feelings:
Humans can easily identify with the emotional expressions of chimpanzees.
He identified with our distress.

2. identify somebody with something to think that someone is very closely related to or involved with something such as a political group:
She has always been identified with the radical left.

3. identify something with somebody/something to think that something is the same as, or closely related to, something else:
the attempt to identify crime with poverty and social problems

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

identify with
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.

identify with (something)
to feel that you understand a situation.
So, they've run out of money? I can identify with that!

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

identify with something
identify with (something)
to feel that you understand a situation.
So, they've run out of money? I can identify with that!

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲