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
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reduces English
Verb
(head)
(reduce)
Anagrams
*
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reduce English
Verb
To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.
* to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.
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To lose weight.
To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
* to reduce a sergeant to the ranks
* An ancient but reduced family. --.
* Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it. --.
* Having reduced their foe to misery beneath their fears. -- .
* Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced . --.
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- Neither [Jones] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."
To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
* to reduce a province or a fort
To bring to an inferior state or condition.
* to reduce a city to ashes
(cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
(chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
(metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
(mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
(legal) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to writing").
* It is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing.
(medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
(military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
Related terms
* reducible
* reductase
* reduction
* reductive
Synonyms
* (to bring down) cut, decrease, lower
Antonyms
* (to bring down) increase
See also
* reducing agent
References
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