Comfort and Discourage

Comfort

Comfort verb - To ease the grief or distress of.
Usage example: the minister did his best to comfort the victims of the terrible tornado

Discourage is an antonym for comfort in make to feel better topic.

Discourage

Discourage verb - To lessen the courage or confidence of.

Comfort is an antonym for discourage in topics: deter, dishearten.

Nearby Words: discouragement, discouraging

Common collocations

girl comfort girl discourage girl
people comfort people discourage people
boy comfort boy discourage boy
someone comfort someone discourage someone
Other words: former, players, survivors.
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