All give a hard time antonyms

verb give a hard time

• appease — If you try to appease someone, you try to stop them from being angry by giving them what they want.
• soothe — to tranquilize or calm, as a person or the feelings; relieve, comfort, or refresh: soothing someone's anger; to soothe someone with a hot drink.
• calm — A calm person does not show or feel any worry, anger, or excitement.
• delight — Delight is a feeling of very great pleasure.
• laud — to praise; extol.
• assuage — If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly.
• placate — to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
• heal — to make healthy, whole, or sound; restore to health; free from ailment.
• comfort — If you are doing something in comfort, you are physically relaxed and contented, and are not feeling any pain or other unpleasant sensations.
• commend — If you commend someone or something, you praise them formally.
• approve — If you approve of an action, event, or suggestion, you like it or are pleased about it.
• flatter — to make flat.
• applaud — When a group of people applaud, they clap their hands in order to show approval, for example when they have enjoyed a play or concert.
• aid — Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
• praise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
• compliment — A compliment is a polite remark that you say to someone to show that you like their appearance, appreciate their qualities, or approve of what they have done.
• let go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• lose — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
• support — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
• free — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
• leave alone — separate, apart, or isolated from others: I want to be alone.