(v. t.) To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.
(v. t.) To assist or help; to aid.
(v. t.) To impart strength and hope to; to encourage; to relieve; to console; to cheer.
(n.) Assistance; relief; support.
(n.) Encouragement; solace; consolation in trouble; also, that which affords consolation.
(n.) A state of quiet enjoyment; freedom from pain, want, or anxiety; also, whatever contributes to such a condition.
(n.) A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable.
(n.) Unlawful support, countenance, or encouragement; as, to give aid and comfort to the enemy.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
(2) All the patients told about a comfortable feeling of warmth after each treatment lasting for one two days.
(3) It arguably became too comfortable for Rodgers' team, with complacency and slack defending proving a dangerous brew.
(4) What shouldn't get lost among the hits, home runs and the intentional and semi-intentional walks is that Ortiz finally seems comfortable with having a leadership role with his team.
(5) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
(6) The Nd-Yag-Laser seems to be a useful device in transsphenoidal surgery due to its potent coagulation effect and comfortable handling.
(7) "People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people," said Zuckerberg in 2010 during an intense few months as controversy raged over the complexity of Facebook's privacy settings.
(8) Consoles are even more widespread in Japan, of course, but for many, finding the time and space to play in comfort is tricky.
(9) Until the bell, 19-year-old Lizzie Armitstead figured strongly in a leading group of 12 that at one point enjoyed a two-minute lead, racing comfortably alongside the Olympic time-trial champion Kristin Armstrong.
(10) The team working together helps the patient receive maximum benefits from treatment and to live more comfortably with his disease.
(11) In a practical sense, it seems reasonable to establish the maxillomandibular relationship with the patient in a comfortable position.
(12) Atlético Madrid maintained their faint hopes of catching Barcelona by recording a fourth straight league win, comfortably beating Deportivo la Coruña 3-0 with goals by the midfielder Saúl Ñíguez, top scorer Antoine Griezmann and Argentinian forward Ángel Correa.
(13) Effectiveness of a relaxation technique to increase the comfort level of patients in their first postoperative attempt at getting out of bed was tested on 42 patients, aged 18 to 65, who were hospitalized for elective surgery.
(14) The comforts of home will determine Liverpool's fate in 2014, according to Brendan Rodgers, and they made a convincing start against Hull City.
(15) The country's priority now, he added, was to "comfort and care for people who have lived through a nightmare which very few of us can imagine".
(16) A backrest adds to the comfort and support of the subject performing resistive knee exercise and should be incorporated into the design of knee exercise units.
(17) The development of a shear transducer, small enough to be worn comfortably under a normal foot, is described, along with a microcomputer controlled data logger.
(18) I still feel that I am standing behind the chair and it is someone else sat there, and I’m just reading over their shoulder.” He hopes life becomes a little more comfortable.
(19) He casts his history of bipartisan negotiation as a form of steamrolling practicality, and many of his actual policies, save regarding gun control, fit comfortably within the far right framework.
(20) It was concluded that preparation to lie down, lying-down movements and comfort behaviour are suitable for the study of relationships between the use of electric cow-trainers and impaired health in cows.
Coziness
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being cozy.
Example Sentences:
(1) But since Snowden leaked secrets on western government spy operations in 2013, Silicon Valley’s leaders have been cautious of seeming too cozy with Washington’s three-letter agencies, which also include the FBI and the CIA.
(2) Outside the forum’s cozy bubble, Vladimir Putin’s hand is everywhere.
(3) However, since Edward Snowden leaked western government secrets to the Guardian and other outlets in 2013, Silicon Valley has become increasingly cautious about seeming too cozy with Washington’s three-letter agencies.
(4) Birnbaum and her agency came under withering criticism from lawmakers of both parties over lax oversight of drilling and cozy ties with industry.
(5) Like his rival, Bush could be vulnerable to accusations of elitism and a cozy relationship with Wall Street .
(6) Valley News reported that Salinger's former home, now "filled with little cushions, crystal china and fabrics in warm pinks and oranges, reflects three decades of use by the Littlefields, but still conjures impressions of a cozy writer's den".
(7) Analysts and the US government suspect an official hand behind the breach of the DNC’s emails – and there is a developing theory that a Russian hacker named Fancy Bear and another hacking team believed to be tied to a competing Russian intelligence service, known as Cozy Bear, were working in concert.
(8) Cozy Bear has dug into the state department the joint chiefs , and the White House , said CrowdStrike, which analyzed those hacks.
(9) The faux-outrage from the right about the AWU cozying up to employers is something to behold, given that conservatives have long insisted the Labor party distance itself from precisely those unions that win the best outcomes for their members.
(10) Gidwani says she’s heard very little from Cozy Bear as her firm tracks malware and phishing attacks.
(11) It shows him to be opposed to all innovation in the Church and above all, during the dictatorship, it shows he was very cozy with the military," Fortunato Mallimacci, the former dean of social sciences at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, once said.
(12) Saturday afternoon at Jill’s Place, a cozy bistro in wealthy Santa Barbara, might have marked the first time in a long time that Hillary Clinton looked genuinely happy on the campaign trail.
(13) The leaks, in particular, have helped bring about an astonishing reversal in the administration’s handling of Russia – from treating Putin as cozy partner to world menace.
(14) The Washington press corps was dilatory in its investigative reporting – valuing access and cozy relationships with senior officials above the search for truth; ultimately, the media served as lapdogs rather than watchdogs.
(15) In an appearance on Charlie Rose's television show, Geithner responded to the charges that he is too cozy with Wall Street by saying, "You know, I'm deeply offended by that," Geithner said.
(16) The journalists' silence was unfortunate but, sad to say, a reflection of most media companies' coziness with the rich and powerful in America and around the world.
(17) The species differs from E. cozi, which is the only other species of the genus, by having a sligtly larger size and a very little pronounced cephalic constriction.
(18) Joe Conason, who covered Murdoch at the Village Voice throughout much of the 70s and 80s, called Cohn “the lynchpin” of Murdoch’s cozy relationship with Reagan.
(19) In the UK, the prime minister, Theresa May, has come under fierce criticism for cozying up to Trump, including holding his hand at the White House and inviting him to a state visit to the UK, while showing reluctance to criticize his immigration stance.
(20) Tessa Jowell and Jon Cruddas were also about, but this was the year the new Tories – Michael Gove , Rory Stewart and David Willetts – arrived to cozy up to the liberal establishment before slashing the arts budget.