comfort
/ˈkʌm.fɚt/ verb C2- To relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to. · Rob comforted Aaron because he was lost and very sad.
He/she/it comforts · Past comforted · Past participle comforted · -ing form comforting
Verb forms
- Base form
- comfort
- He/she/it
- comforts
- Past
- comforted
- Past participle
- comforted
- -ing form
- comforting
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They were always just going to have a leader, and laws and customs of their own, but they never did, because their memories would not hold over from day to day, and so they compromised things by making up a saying, “What the Bandar-log think now the jungle will think later,” and that comforted them a great deal.
This Job’s comforting seemed neither to offend nor to alarm Marilla.
It was a great comfort while it lasted.
‘My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.’ That’s a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I’m disappointed in anything.”
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