Comfort or consolation in a time of loneliness or distress.
A source of comfort or consolation.
To allay or assuage.
To give solace to; comfort; cheer; console.
To take comfort; to be cheered.
Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.)