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comfort-eating

comfort-eating is the present participle and gerund of comfort-eat.

Meaning of comfort-eat

Verb

comfort-eat (third-person singular simple present comfort-eats, present participle comfort-eating, simple past comfort-ate, past participle comfort-eaten)

  1. (intransitive) To engage in comfort eating.

Questions about comfort-eating

What is comfort-eating the present participle and gerund of?
Comfort-eating is the present participle and gerund of comfort-eat.

Words near comfort-eating in the dictionary

  1. comfort zone
  2. comfort zones
  3. comfort-ate
  4. comfort-eat
  5. comfort-eaten
  6. comfort-eating
  7. comfort-eats
  8. comfortabilities
  9. comfortability
  10. comfortable
  11. comfortable as an old shoe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: comfort-eating (page history and authors); comfort-eat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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