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Comfort vs Recreate - What's the difference?

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Comfort is a synonym of recreate.


In lang=en terms the difference between comfort and recreate

is that comfort is to make comfortable while recreate is to take recreation.

As verbs the difference between comfort and recreate

is that comfort is to relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to while recreate is to give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven or recreate can be to create anew.

As a noun comfort

is contentment, ease.

comfort

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Contentment, ease.
    • Sleep in comfort with our new mattress.
  • Something that offers comfort.
    • the comforts of home
  • A consolation; something relieving suffering or worry.
    • We still have the spare tire? That's a comfort at least.
  • A cause of relief or satisfaction.
    • The outcome of the peace negotiations in Moscow in 1940 was a heavy blow to the young nation, but in the same time a great comfort : at least the independency was preserved.

    Synonyms

    *

    Antonyms

    * austerity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to.
    • Rob comforted Aaron because he was lost and very sad.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Light excelleth in comforting the spirits of men.
  • To make comfortable. (rfex)
  • (obsolete) To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.
    • (Wyclif)
  • * Hooker
    • God's own testimony doth not a little comfort and confirm the same.
  • (obsolete) To assist or help; to aid.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I cannot help the noble chevalier: / God comfort him in this necessity!

    Synonyms

    * besoothe

    Derived terms

    * cold comfort * comfort woman * comfortable * comforter * comforting * discomfort * letter of comfort ----

    recreate

    English

    Etymology 1

    From the participle stem of Latin recreare'' ‘restore’, from ''re-'' ‘re-’ + ''creare ‘create’.

    Verb

    (recreat)
  • To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
  • * Dryden
    • Painters, when they work on white grounds, place before them colours mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes, white wearying the sight more than any.
  • * Dr H. More
    • These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent.
  • (reflexive) To enjoy or entertain oneself.
  • *, II.ii.3:
    • In Italy, though they bide in cities in winter, which is more gentlemanlike, all the summer they come abroad to their country-houses, to recreate themselves.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge
  • To take recreation.

    • Etymology 2

    From re-'' + ''create .

    Verb

    (recreat)
  • To create anew.