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US
/ˈkəmfɝtɝ/
]
[ UK /kˈʌmfətɐ/ ]
[ UK /kˈʌmfətɐ/ ]
NOUN
- bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
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a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies
an allayer of fears
a reliever of anxiety - a person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune
- device used for an infant to suck or bite on
How To Use comforter In A Sentence
- `Kate, dear Kate, it's sweet of you to want to be my comforter. SEA MUSIC
- She couldn't help but snuggle against the warm comforter, taking in its scent and texture.
- Three winners will receive a set of 180-thread-count cotton-polyester-blend sheets, a comforter, two shams and a bed skirt; queen size only.
- This looks like a blanket or comforter - fuzzy and warm.
- Aimee mumbled to herself about getting a lock for her door and pulled the comforter to her bed, cuddling up under it so that she could get back to sleep.
- She had hot pink sheets, with matching pillowcases, as well as a dark purple comforter, and lavender throw pillow.
- I felt a kind of qualm of faintness and downsinking about my heart and stomach, to the dispelling of which I took a thimbleful of spirits, and, tying my red comforter about my neck, I marched briskly to the session-house. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
- The feather comforter was neatly smoothed out on the bed and the pillow was precisely in its center.
- St. Gildas, in the twelfth century, had Abelard for superior, who, on his appointment, made over to Eloise the celebrated abbey he had founded at Nogent, near Troyes, which he called the Paraclete or Comforter, because he there found comfort and refreshment after his troubles, but his peace soon ended on his arrival in Brittany. Brittany & Its Byways
- Ms. Rothenburgh did not want a hospital bed, so Mr. Lewis found her a twin bed, with a comforter in a pattern that matched the dress Ms. Rothenburgh wore at her son's wedding.