console
/kənˈsoʊl/ verb B2- To comfort (someone) in a time of grief, disappointment, etc.
He/she/it consoles · Past consoled · Past participle consoled · -ing form consoling
Verb forms
- Base form
- console
- He/she/it
- consoles
- Past
- consoled
- Past participle
- consoled
- -ing form
- consoling
From the library
If I were betrayed as he was, I would console myself; but to be in the midst of persons elevated by myself to places of honor, who ought to watch over me more carefully than over themselves,—for my fortune is theirs—before me they were nothing—after me they will be nothing, and perish miserably from incapacity—ineptitude!
Then she returned to the house, not a little consoled for the time being by this romantic parting.
Anne had sat among the stumps and wept, not without an eye to the romance of it; but she was speedily consoled, for, after all, as she and Diana said, big girls of thirteen, going on fourteen, were too old for such childish amusements as playhouses, and there were more fascinating sports to be found about the pond.
She determined to “shroud her feelings in deepest oblivion,” and it may be stated here and now that she did it, so successfully that Gilbert, who possibly was not quite so indifferent as he seemed, could not console himself with any belief that Anne felt his retaliatory scorn.
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