Comfort and Persuade

Comfort

Comfort verb - To ease the grief or distress of.

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

Persuade verb - To cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest request.

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Comfort and persuade are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Comfort" instead a verb "Persuade".

person	comfort person	persuade person
girl	comfort girl	persuade girl
man	comfort man	persuade man
woman	comfort woman	persuade woman
Other words: people, girlfriend, wife, children, someone, kid, father, brother, daughter, friends, victims.

In Snatcher, Gillian Seed (who is by the way married) can try to persuade the 18 (14 in the original Japanese version!) year old daughter of a dead teammate to let him try to comfort her.

Source: Comforting the Widow

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