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re-assure

re-assure is the alternative form of reassure.

Meaning of reassure

Verb

reassure (third-person singular simple present reassures, present participle reassuring, simple past and past participle reassured)

  1. (transitive) To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or self-doubt.
    • The boy's mother reassured him that there was no monster hiding under the bed.
  2. (transitive) To reinsure.

Forms of re-assure

third-person singular presentre-assures
present participlere-assuring
past participlere-assured
pastre-assured

Questions about re-assure

What is re-assure the alternative form of?
Re-assure is the alternative form of reassure.

Words near re-assure in the dictionary

  1. re-associated
  2. re-associates
  3. re-associating
  4. re-assurance
  5. re-assurances
  6. re-assure
  7. re-assured
  8. re-assures
  9. re-assuring
  10. re-attach
  11. re-attached

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-assure (page history and authors); reassure (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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