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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
comfort .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective made comfortable or more comfortable in a time of distress
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Examples
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Must I be comforted, not in his sphere] I cannot be united with him and move in the same _sphere_, but _must be comforted_ at a distance by the _radiance_ that shoots _on all sides_ from him.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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But the worst of it is, that in such afflictions as yours is, the idea of ever becoming comforted is altogether loathsome, and so, my darling, I can do you no good.
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892
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Your choir-preaching was a form of feel-good masturbation, and you could remain comforted by the fact that the people who didn’t get your obscure message were idiots who you didn’t want on your side anyway.
Oscar Night 2006
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"Let Me Down Easy" is a phrase that comforted Joel Siegel, the ABC film critic who died of cancer in 2007.
Erika Milvy: Anna Deavere Smith, Human Tape-Recorder Extraordinaire Erika Milvy 2011
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"Let Me Down Easy" is a phrase that comforted Joel Siegel, the ABC film critic who died of cancer in 2007.
Erika Milvy: Anna Deavere Smith, Human Tape-Recorder Extraordinaire Erika Milvy 2011
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"Let Me Down Easy" is a phrase that comforted Joel Siegel, the ABC film critic who died of cancer in 2007.
Erika Milvy: Anna Deavere Smith, Human Tape-Recorder Extraordinaire Erika Milvy 2011
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"Let Me Down Easy" is a phrase that comforted Joel Siegel, the ABC film critic who died of cancer in 2007.
Erika Milvy: Anna Deavere Smith, Human Tape-Recorder Extraordinaire Erika Milvy 2011
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"Let Me Down Easy" is a phrase that comforted Joel Siegel, the ABC film critic who died of cancer in 2007.
Erika Milvy: Anna Deavere Smith, Human Tape-Recorder Extraordinaire Erika Milvy 2011
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"Let Me Down Easy" is a phrase that comforted Joel Siegel, the ABC film critic who died of cancer in 2007.
Erika Milvy: Anna Deavere Smith, Human Tape-Recorder Extraordinaire Erika Milvy 2011
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I was reminded of the time I truly understood what Robert Frost meant when he said "I have been one acquainted with the night" and how that phrase comforted me.
Best Article and Book Laurie 2009
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