The word 'console' is both a verb (console, consoles, consoling, consoled) and a noun (console, consoles).
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As a verb: He tried to console the distraught girl.
As a noun: The console was laid out so poorly that I couldn't tell the heater from the radio.
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He went to the funeral to console his friend.
She was glad that he was there to console her.
Sitting at the console he could see that things were working.
Using the console he was able to adjust the settings.
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comfort, soothe, console, solacerelieve, alleviate, palliate, assuage
I was grieving so deeply that I thought there would be no consolation. Because I had the worst score, I got a consolation prize.
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The abstract noun forms of the verb to console are consolation and the gerund, consoling.There is no abstract noun form for the concrete noun 'console', a word for small table or cabinet, a board with switches or buttons that controls a machine or a piece of electronic equipment, and housing for scientific instruments, a word for a physical thing.