Comfort and Protect

Comfort

Comfort verb - To ease the grief or distress of.

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

Protect verb - To drive danger or attack away from.

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Comfort and protect are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Comfort" instead a verb "Protect".

girl	comfort girl	protect girl
friend	comfort friend	protect friend
woman	comfort woman	protect woman
people	comfort people	protect people
Other words: wife, children, someone, mother, harry, father, child, brother, citizens, son, daughter, sister, friends.

Early in the strip, Sid attempts to comfort and protect actual food, like cake and sandwiches, which he sees as being like himself, though he grows out of this — it's only when he's fairly young and naïve that he does so, and later in the series he has no problem fetching some cake for Vexxarr.

Source: Webcomic / Vexxarr
He sees her, learns a bit about her, and is immediately moved to defend her honor, protect and comfort her.

Source: Literature / The Idiot
It helps that the two of them are quite similar personality-wise (playful, introverted, idealist, somewhat childish, etc.), have both suffered sad and traumatic events in their recent past, and are eager to become good friends who protect and comfort each other in times of need.

Source: Single Woman Seeks Good Man

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