reassure
/ˌɹi.əˈʃʊə(ɹ)/US/ˌɹi.əˈʃʊɹ/
reassure verb: to assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or self-doubt.
Verb
reassure (third-person singular simple present reassures, present participle reassuring, simple past and past participle reassured)
- 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.
- What is more, I call upon the greater part of you as witnesses to my statement, and I appeal to all of you who have ever listened to me talking (and there are a great many to whom this applies) to reassure one another on this point.1993, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick and Harold Tarrant, “Justice and Duty (i): Socrates Speaks at his Trial: the Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), revised edition...
- To reinsure.
reassure meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
reassure in Hindi
- to assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or self-doubt
- आश्वासन āśvāsan
reassure in Urdu
- بات پکی کرنا, تصدیق کرنا, یقین دلانا
reassure in Bengali
- আশ্বস্ত করা, অভয় দেওয়া
reassure in Malayalam
- വീണ്ടും ഉറപ്പുനല്ക്കുക, സമാശ്വസിപ്പിക്കുക, ധൈര്യപ്പെടുത്തുക
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- reassure in Kannada
- ಮರುಮಾತುಕೊಡು, ನಂಬಿಕೆಯುಳಿಸು, ಪುನಃ ಭರವಸೆ ನೀಡು, ಪುನರಾಶ್ವಾಸನೆ ಕೊಡು
- reassure in Punjabi
- ਭਰੋਸਾ ਦਿਵਾਉਣ ਲਈ
- reassure in Gujarati
- આશ્વાસન આપવા
- reassure in Vietnamese
- trấn an
Examples of reassure in a sentence
- They tried to reassure me but I was not able to annul my fears.
- Aaron got a little tearful until Laura came to reassure him.
- After the press conference about the financial scandal, the spokesperson reassured the public that there was nothing to see here.
Forms of reassure
| third-person singular present | reassures |
|---|---|
| present participle | reassuring |
| past participle | reassured |
| past | reassured |
| alternative form | re-assure |
Origin of reassure
From Old French rasseürer (French rassurer), from re- + asseürer; as if re- + assure.
Words formed from reassure
Words that rhyme with reassure
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- muir
- obscure
- amour
- assure
- boor
- immure
- impure
- lure
- recure
- immature
- inure
- manure
- moor
- cour
- Darfur
- demure
- du jour
- fure
- insecure
- liqueur
- mure
- roture
- Ruhr
- unsure
- adure
- allure
- bonheur du jour
- bonjour
- brochure
- bure
- chaussure
- combure
- couture
- de jour
- dhuhr
- dure
- guipure
- Kapur
- L'Anse Amour
- Namur
- parkour
- parure
- plat du jour
- poseur
- purpure
- smoor
- soup du jour
- spoor
Questions about reassure
- What does reassure mean?
- Reassure means to assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or self-doubt.
- What is reassure in Hindi?
- Reassure in Hindi is आश्वासन (āśvāsan). See Reassure meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is reassure?
- Reassure is a verb.
- How do you pronounce reassure?
- Reassure is pronounced /ˌɹi.əˈʃʊə(ɹ)/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of reassure?
- The past tense of reassure is reassured.
Words near reassure in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: reassure (page history and authors); reassure (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); reassure (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); reassure (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); reassure (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); reassure (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); reassure (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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