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"text": "Sleep in comfort with our new mattress.",
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"ref": "1684, chapter III, in Bucaniers of America: Or, A True Account of the Moſt Remarkable Aſſaults Committed of Late Years Upon the Coaſts of the West-Indies, by Bucaniers of Jamica and Tortuga, Both English and French; Wherein are Contained More Eſpecially, the Unparallel'd Exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, Our Engliſh Jamaican Hero, who ſack'd Puerto Velo, Burnt Panama. &c [Part II], volume 1, London: Printed for William Crooke, translation of De Americaensche Zee-Roovers, […] by John Eſquemeling, page 30:",
"text": "But all was in vain: For having ranged up and down the Woods for ſome days, without finding the leaſt comfort to their hungry deſires, they were forced to return again unto the River. […] At laſt they arrived at the Coaſt of the Sea, where they found ſome comfort and relief to their former miſeries, and alſo means to ſeek more.",
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"ref": "1850, T. S. Arthur, “A Rise in the Butter Market”, in Sketches of Life and Character, Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, →OCLC, page 59:",
"text": "How often is the comfort of a whole family abridged by some trifling circumstance, that ought not to have made a visible impression!",
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"ref": "1937 September 21, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “An Unexpected Party”, in The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published February 1966 (August 1967 printing), →OCLC, page 15:",
"text": "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.",
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"feminine"
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"masculine"
],
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{
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"word": "快適さ"
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"feminine"
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"roman": "sukhaṁ",
"sense": "contentment, ease",
"word": "സുഖം"
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"sense": "contentment, ease",
"word": "fasilidat"
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{
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"roman": "râhat",
"sense": "contentment, ease",
"word": "راحت"
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"word": "آسایش"
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"tags": [
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{
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"sense": "contentment, ease",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "conforto"
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"sense": "contentment, ease",
"word": "confort"
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{
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"neuter"
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"masculine"
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{
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ujút",
"sense": "contentment, ease",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ую́т"
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{
"_dis1": "91 1 2 6",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "contentment, ease",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"_dis1": "91 1 2 6",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "contentment, ease",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "pohodlie"
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{
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"sense": "contentment, ease",
"tags": [
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"word": "raaxo"
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{
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"sense": "contentment, ease",
"tags": [
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"sense": "contentment, ease",
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{
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"code": "tg",
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"roman": "qulay",
"sense": "contentment, ease",
"word": "қулай"
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{
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"word": "роҳат"
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"word": "konfor"
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"roman": "zrúčnistʹ",
"sense": "contentment, ease",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "зру́чність"
},
{
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"code": "uk",
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"roman": "vyhídnistʹ",
"sense": "contentment, ease",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "вигі́дність"
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{
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"roman": "komfórt",
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"masculine"
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"word": "پاراغەت"
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{
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{
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{
"text": "We still have the spare tire? That's a comfort at least.",
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[
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[
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{
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"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "yıwanıs",
"sense": "consolation",
"word": "йыуаныс"
},
{
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"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "ucjašénnje",
"sense": "consolation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "уцяшэ́нне"
},
{
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"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "sucjašénnje",
"sense": "consolation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "суцяшэ́нне"
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{
"_dis1": "3 1 90 6",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "uteha",
"sense": "consolation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "утеха"
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{
"_dis1": "3 1 90 6",
"code": "ca",
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"word": "սփոփել"
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"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
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"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
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"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
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"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "trösten"
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"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
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"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
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"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "төвкнүлх"
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"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
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"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "confortar"
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{
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "reconfortar"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uspokáivatʹ",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "успока́ивать"
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"word": "teselli etmek"
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"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
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"ref": "1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):",
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"ref": "1684, chapter III, in Bucaniers of America: Or, A True Account of the Moſt Remarkable Aſſaults Committed of Late Years Upon the Coaſts of the West-Indies, by Bucaniers of Jamica and Tortuga, Both English and French; Wherein are Contained More Eſpecially, the Unparallel'd Exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, Our Engliſh Jamaican Hero, who ſack'd Puerto Velo, Burnt Panama. &c [Part II], volume 1, London: Printed for William Crooke, translation of De Americaensche Zee-Roovers, […] by John Eſquemeling, page 30:",
"text": "But all was in vain: For having ranged up and down the Woods for ſome days, without finding the leaſt comfort to their hungry deſires, they were forced to return again unto the River. […] At laſt they arrived at the Coaſt of the Sea, where they found ſome comfort and relief to their former miſeries, and alſo means to ſeek more.",
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"word": "舒適"
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "contentment, ease",
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{
"code": "da",
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"neuter"
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"tags": [
"neuter"
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"code": "eo",
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"word": "komforto"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "contentment, ease",
"word": "mukavuus"
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"code": "fr",
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"tags": [
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"code": "gl",
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "contentment, ease",
"tags": [
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"masculine"
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"feminine"
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"code": "de",
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"neuter"
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"word": "𐌰𐌶𐌴𐍄𐌹"
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"sense": "contentment, ease",
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"feminine"
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"code": "he",
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"sense": "contentment, ease",
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{
"code": "hi",
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{
"code": "id",
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"sense": "contentment, ease",
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{
"code": "ga",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"code": "ga",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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"sense": "contentment, ease",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "sga",
"lang": "Old Irish",
"sense": "contentment, ease",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "contentment, ease",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "contentment, ease",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"code": "lv",
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"sense": "contentment, ease",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "udobnost",
"sense": "contentment, ease",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
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"sense": "contentment, ease",
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{
"code": "mi",
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"word": "oranga ngākau"
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{
"code": "mi",
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{
"code": "mi",
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"word": "راحت"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "contentment, ease",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "wygoda"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "contentment, ease",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "contentment, ease",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
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"neuter"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "contentment, ease",
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "ujút",
"sense": "contentment, ease",
"tags": [
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "contentment, ease",
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"code": "sk",
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"neuter"
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"code": "sl",
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"tags": [
"neuter"
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"code": "so",
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"word": "raaxo"
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"code": "es",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "sv",
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"tags": [
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"code": "tg",
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"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
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"word": "роҳат"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "contentment, ease",
"word": "konfor"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zrúčnistʹ",
"sense": "contentment, ease",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "uk",
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"sense": "contentment, ease",
"tags": [
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
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"sense": "contentment, ease",
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"code": "ug",
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"code": "ug",
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"word": "راھەت"
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"code": "ba",
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"code": "be",
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"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
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"roman": "ānwèi",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "安慰"
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"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
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"roman": "kuānwèi",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "宽慰"
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"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "troosten"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "lohduttaa"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "rauhoittaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "consoler"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "trösten"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "ermutigen"
},
{
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "gaþlaihan",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "𐌲𐌰𐌸𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽"
},
{
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "þrafstjan",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "𐌸𐍂𐌰𐍆𐍃𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "parigoró",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "παρηγορώ"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "parēgoréō",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "παρηγορέω"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "hirgía",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "הרגיע"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "nikhém",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "ניחם"
},
{
"alt": "なぐめる",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "nagumeru",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "慰める"
},
{
"code": "xal",
"lang": "Kalmyk",
"roman": "tövknülx",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "төвкнүлх"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "consōlor"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "alloquor"
},
{
"code": "zdj",
"lang": "Ngazidja Comorian",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "utruliza"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "confortar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "reconfortar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uspokáivatʹ",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "успока́ивать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uspokóitʹ",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "успоко́ить"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "utešátʹ",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "утеша́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "utéšitʹ",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "уте́шить"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "uteší"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "confortar"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "ferahlatmak"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"raw_tags": [
"for someone's loss"
],
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"tags": [
"usually"
],
"word": "teselli etmek"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zaspokójuvaty",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "заспоко́ювати"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zaspokójity",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "заспоко́їти"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "utyšáty",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "утиша́ти"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "utýšyty",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "ути́шити"
},
{
"code": "fy",
"lang": "West Frisian",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "treastgje"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "treystn",
"sense": "to provide comfort to — see also console",
"word": "טרייסטן"
}
],
"word": "comfort"
}
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