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recomfort

UK/ɹiːˈkʌmfət/

recomfort verb: to console (someone); to comfort, look after.

Verb

recomfort (third-person singular simple present recomforts, present participle recomforting, simple past and past participle recomforted)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To console (someone); to comfort, look after.
    • With that cam his moder the quene of Orkeney dame Morgause / And whan she sawe syr Gareth redely in the vysage she myghte not wepe but sodenly felle doun in a swoune / and lay there a grete whyle lyke as she had ben dede / And thenne syr Gareth recomforted his moder in suche wyse that she recouerd...1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxxiiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VII
  2. (archaic, transitive) To inspire with new courage; to encourage.
  3. (archaic, transitive) To reinvigorate, to strengthen.
    • And therefore it is an experiment , though vulgar in strawberries , yet not brought into use generally : for it is usual to help the ground with muck , and likewise to recomfort it sometimes with muck put to the roots1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “V. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William...

recomfort meaning in Bengali

recomfort in Bengali

সান্ত্বনা দেওয়া, দেখাশোনা করা, নতুন সাহস জোগানো, উৎসাহিত করা, নতুন করে শক্তি জোগানো, শক্তিশালী করা

Forms of recomfort

third-person singular presentrecomforts
present participlerecomforting
past participlerecomforted
pastrecomforted

Origin of recomfort

From Anglo-Norman reconforter, Middle French reconforter, from re- + conforter.

Words formed from recomfort

Questions about recomfort

What does recomfort mean?
Recomfort means to console (someone); to comfort, look after.
What is recomfort in Bengali?
Recomfort in Bengali is সান্ত্বনা দেওয়া, দেখাশোনা করা, নতুন সাহস জোগানো. See Recomfort meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is recomfort?
Recomfort is a verb.
How do you pronounce recomfort?
Recomfort is pronounced /ɹiːˈkʌmfət/ (UK).
What is the past tense of recomfort?
The past tense of recomfort is recomforted.

Words near recomfort in the dictionary

  1. recomember
  2. recomembered
  3. recomembering
  4. recomembers
  5. recomendatory
  6. recomfort
  7. recomforted
  8. recomforting
  9. recomfortless
  10. recomforts
  11. recomforture

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recomfort (page history and authors); recomfort (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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