Comfort and Hug

Comfort

Comfort verb - To ease the grief or distress of.

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

Hug

Hug verb - To express to (someone) admiration for his or her success or good fortune.

Comfort and hug are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Comfort" instead a verb "Hug".

Nearby Word: hugged

How words are described

emotional emotional comfort emotional hug
close close comfort close hug
good good comfort good hug
many many comfort many hug
Other adjectives: real, great, heartfelt, final, last.

Common collocations

love comfort love hug love
person comfort person hug person
girl comfort girl hug girl
man comfort man hug man
Other words: people, girlfriend, wife, children, someone, mother, dog, father, child, son, daughter, friends, victims.

Both words in one sentence

  • Lelouch is forced to leave Nunnally forever, but Nunnally has some comfort in sharing one last hug with him and him telling her he will always love her.
  • Revealing Hug J.J and Reid hug to comfort one another and whereas only grief can be seen on Reid's face, J.J looks at Hotch over his shoulder with an expression showing that there is more going on.
    Source: Revealing Hug
  • Moe A common definition is that Moe is the ability of a character to instill in the audience an irrational desire to adore them, hug them, protect them, comfort them, etc.
    Source: Moe
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