Back and Comfort

Back

Back verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.

Usage example: a number of influential people have already agreed to back the candidate

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Comfort and back are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Comfort" instead a verb "Back".

Nearby Words: backward, backing, backed, backside, backwards

Comfort verb - To ease the grief or distress of.

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Back and comfort are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Back" instead a verb "Comfort".

friend	back friend	comfort friend
man	back man	comfort man
people	back people	comfort people
son	back son	comfort son
Other words: times, sister, Alex.

Dupin comments at the end of the quest that you should go back and comfort Anna.

Source: Videogame / Dark Tales
In the Popeye short "Weight for Me" Olive comfort eats while Popeye and Brutus are away at sea and when they come back she's obese.

Source: Chubby Chaser
In Real Life this trope may have been of some comfort to the friends and next of kin back in the days before decent sanitation and modern medical care.

Source: Too Good for This Sinful Earth

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