Comfort

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  • transitive verb. To soothe in time of affliction or distress.
  • transitive verb. To ease physically; relieve.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A condition or feeling of pleasurable physical ease or relief from pain or stress.
  • noun. A condition of well-being, contentment, and security.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Solace or consolation in time of sorrow or distress.
  • noun. Help; assistance.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Something providing ease, convenience, or security.
  • noun. A person or thing that brings consolation or mental ease.
  • noun. A quilted bedcover; a comforter.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Strength; support; assistance; countenance; encouragement: now only a legal use: as, an accessory affords aid or comfort to a felon.
  • noun. Relief in affliction, sorrow, or trouble of any kind; support; solace; consolation: as, to bring comfort to the afflicted.
  • noun. A state of tranquil or moderate enjoyment, resulting from the satisfaction of bodily wants and freedom from care or anxiety; a feeling or state of well-being, satisfaction, or content.
  • noun. That which gives or produces the feeling of welfare and satisfaction; that which furnishes moderate enjoyment or content.
  • noun. Same as comfortable.
  • noun. Synonyms Comfort, Consolation, Solace, relief, succor, ease, help. Comfort has a range of meaning not shared by the others, approaching that of pleasure, but of the quiet, durable, satisfying, heart-felt sort, meeting the needs most felt; as contrasted with consolation, it ordinarily applies to smaller or less known griefs, and is more positive and tender, and less formal. As contrasted with solace, comfort and consolation may or may not proceed from a person, while solace is got from things. Comfort may be merely physical; consolation and solace are spiritual.
  • To give or add strength to; strengthen; fortify; invigorate; corroborate.
  • To soothe when in grief or trouble; bring solace or consolation to; console; cheer; solace.
  • To relieve, assist, harbor, or encourage: in law, used especially of the conduct of an accessory to a crime after the fact.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Assistance; relief; support.
  • noun. Encouragement; solace; consolation in trouble; also, that which affords consolation.
  • noun. A state of quiet enjoyment; freedom from pain, want, or anxiety; also, whatever contributes to such a condition.
  • noun. A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable.
  • noun. Unlawful support, countenance, or encouragement.
  • transitive verb. To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.
  • transitive verb. To assist or help; to aid.
  • transitive verb. To impart strength and hope to; to encourage; to relieve; to console; to cheer.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Contentment, ease.
  • noun. A consolation; something relieving suffering or worry.
  • noun. A cause of relief or satisfaction.
  • verb. : To provide comfort to or relieve suffering.
  • verb. To make the physical circumstances comfortable.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment
  • noun. the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction
  • verb. lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate
  • noun. a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state
  • noun. assistance, such as that provided to an enemy or to a known criminal
  • noun. satisfaction or physical well-being provided by a person or thing
  • verb. give moral or emotional strength to
  • noun. a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain
  • noun. bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
  • Word Usage
    ""For instance -- treason is giving aid and comfort to the enemy; everybody south of a certain geographical line is an enemy; you live south of that line, ergo you are an enemy; I send you my love, you being an enemy; this gives you _comfort_; ergo, I have given comfort to the enemy; ergo, I am"
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