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1. A person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune
   - sympathizer, sympathiser [Brit]
    
2. A person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies
   "a comforter of anxiety";
   - reliever, allayer
    
3. Bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
   - quilt, comfort, puff
    
4. Device used for an infant to suck or bite on
   - pacifier [N. Amer], baby's dummy, teething ring, soother [Brit, Cdn], dummy [Brit]

Derived forms: comforters

Type of: bed clothing, bedclothes, bedding, communicator, device, individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

Encyclopedia: Comforter