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Answer for the clue "Give comfort to ", 6 letters:
soothe
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vb. 1 (context transitive obsolete English) To prove true; verify; confirm as true. 2 (context transitive obsolete English) To confirm the statements of; maintain the truthfulness of (a person); bear out. 3 (context transitive obsolete English) To assent ...
Usage examples of soothe.
Again that strange, glorious accent that reverberated through her like a warm, soothing caress.
Who, soothed to false repose by the fanning plumes above And the music-stirring motion of its soft and busy feet, Dream visions of aereal joy, and call the monster, Love, And wake, and find the shadow Pain, as he whom now we greet.
The soothing smells of Akasha wafted slowly into her psyche, like a balm to her soul.
He was soothing the buffaloes now by voice, and Akela had dropped far to the rear, only whimpering once or twice to hurry the rear-guard.
He yelped in a most unmaesterlike fashion, while Alayne turned to soothe the little lordling, but too late.
Robert succeeded in soothing him -- and the poor old lion is very quiet on the whole, roaring softly, to beguile the time, in Latin alcaics against his wife and Louis Napoleon.
Wrapping the reins more securely around his fist, Alec coaxed the nervous mare along with soothing words as her hooves struck loose stones.
Any gentleman, surely, by now, speaking reassuring, soothing words, averting his eyes from my beauty, would have hastened to release me from my predicament.
Our cook is a gentle, avuncular Muslim called Doud whose careful rhythm of prayer and cooking and cleaning washes like a balm from his small inferno behind the dining room and soothes in waves across our house.
A moment later Babbie was on his knee, hiding her emotion in the front of his jacket, and he was trying his best to soothe her with characteristic Winslow nonsense.
She may later become one of the babies and toddlers who is anxious, fussy, and difficult to soothe.
Very generally speaking, babies will cry 26 27 Hard-to-soothe Babies In almost every one of our groups there is a baby who has colic or is especially hard to soothe.
Out of the money paid by Tippoo the commander-in-chief made a spontaneous gift to his troops, equal to six months batta, in order to soothe them for the disappointment of their expectations of booty in the storming of Seringapatam, and for their good conduct during the war.
Ida was a tiny bit put out over this, as she and I had been bedfellows since I was a baby, but Aunt Queen soothed her so that she let it go.
The filing of the decree of the Senate had acted like a charm upon our Capo of the Ten: the importance thus accorded to the Ca' Giustiniani soothed every vestige of wounded pride, while the beauty and grace of his prospective daughter-in-law had filled him with a triumph which only the frigid stateliness of his habitual demeanor enabled him to conceal, so great was the revulsion from his former state of feeling.