(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.
Nourish
Definition:
(v. t.) To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.
(v. t.) To support; to maintain.
(v. t.) To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues.
(v. t.) To cherish; to comfort.
(v. t.) To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments.
(v. i.) To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.
(v. i.) To gain nourishment.
(n.) A nurse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whereas the abdominal pain subsided rapidly under oxygen therapy and liquid nourishment, the radiological changes receded gradually.
(2) On admission she was found to be a well-nourished infant with a head circumference of 56 cm, bulging anterior fontanelle and mental retardation.
(3) Forty-one rats were allocated to one of 3 groups: group I (n = 13) were normally nourished rats which underwent partial hepatectomy, group II (n = 16) were semistarved rats which underwent partial hepatectomy, and group III (n = 12) were normally nourished rats which underwent sham operations.
(4) The rate of Cryptosporidium detection was similar among malnourished and well-nourished patients, as determined by weight-for-height percentiles.
(5) Its buildings, arranged around a sociable courtyard and a slice of towpath, also nourish a community of businesses that sustain between 250 and 300 jobs, all of which could go if the site’s new owner, Galliard Homes, has its way.
(6) The findings suggested that the fetuses of the poorly nourished mothers (mean gain weight during pregnancy was only 6 kg.
(7) Hydrogen breath tests were performed in Gabon (Central Africa) after a loading dose of lactose in 67 well-nourished African children (50 with intestinal parasites and 17 unparasitized) and in 18 unparasitized young adults.
(8) Both malnourished cancer and non-cancer patients had lower values than well-nourished (p less than 0.05).
(9) During period B, 8 well-nourished patients and 10 malnourished cancer patients were used as control groups.
(10) The measurements of feeding efficiency provides the basis for early identification of children who cannot be adequately nourished without ancillary feeding by nasogastric tube or by enterostomy.
(11) This study was designed to compare morphometric relationships between myelin lamellae and axons in undernourished and well nourished developing rats, and in rats nutritionally rehabilitated for two weeks.
(12) Adrenaline at 0.005 microgram kg-1 min-1 increased plasma FFA levels by 19% (P less than 0.05) in weight-losing patients while no significant alteration was observed in well-nourished patients.
(13) The well-nourished old had outcomes that did not differ from younger patients.
(14) The present study assessed development of malnourished and adequately nourished children in hospital and found that mean DQS of each group rose to a similar extent during recovery from illness.
(15) Plasma suppressive activity (PSA) was low in normal subjects and well nourished patients with benign disease and was associated entirely with alpha-2-macroglobulin (a2M).
(16) The concentration of mononuclear inflammatory cells and plasma cells was about half that seen in well-nourished children with severe nongastrointestinal infections.
(17) These infants may be at greater risk for nosocomial infection than normally nourished hosts.
(18) Developing rats were either malnourished or adequately nourished during the prenatal period by feeding their dams diets of 6% (low) or 25% (adequate) casein content 5 weeks prior to mating and throughout pregnancy.
(19) Microvillus surface area per cell appears dependent on the number of microvilli per cell, which equals the cell flat surface times the microvillus numerical density (number of microvilli per square micrometer) in well-nourished rats.
(20) It is concluded that most of these findings can be attributed to differences in the quantity and nature of the nitrogen supplied in the basal diets and that the sheep nourished by infusion would be a suitable model for the study of factors involved in the control of urea recycling.