reassure

See also: réassuré and réassure

English

Etymology

From Old French rasseürer (French rassurer), from re- + asseürer; as if re- +‎ assure.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹiəˈʃʊə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹiəˈʃʊɹ/

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.

Related terms

• reassurance

Translations

to assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or self-doubt

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: запэ́ўніваць impf (zapéŭnivacʹ), запэ́ўніць pf (zapéŭnicʹ)
• Catalan: tranquil·litzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 使……安心 (shǐ... ān xīn), 使……恢复信心 (shǐ huī fù xìn xīn)

• Danish: berolige
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: rauhoittaa (fi), tyynnytellä (fi)
• French: tranquilliser (fr), rassurer (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: versichern (de), beruhigen (de)
• Italian: rassicurare (it), tranquillizzare (it)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 안심시키다 (ko) (ansimsikida)

• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دڵ نیا‎ (ku) (dill nya)

• Latvian: drošināt
• Maori: whakatītina, whakamanawa
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: upewniać impf, upewnić (pl) pf
• Portuguese: tranquilizar (pt), acalmar (pt), reassegurar
• Russian: заверя́ть (ru) impf (zaverjátʹ), заве́рить (ru) pf (zavéritʹ), уверя́ть (ru) impf (uverjátʹ), уве́рить (ru) pf (uvéritʹ), успока́ивать (ru) impf (uspokáivatʹ), успоко́ить (ru) pf (uspokóitʹ), утеша́ть (ru) (utešátʹ), уте́шить (ru) pf (utéšitʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: obodriti (sh)
• Slovak: ubezpečiť, ubezpečovať
• Spanish: tranquilizar (es)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: завіря́ти (uk) (zavirjáty), заспоко́ювати (zaspokójuvaty), заспоко́ювати (zaspokójuvaty)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

to reinsure

• Finnish: vakuuttaa (fi)
• French: réassurer (fr)

• Russian: перестрахо́вывать (ru) impf (perestraxóvyvatʹ), перестрахова́ть (ru) pf (perestraxovátʹ)
• Slovak: znovupoistiť
• Spanish: reasegurar

References

• reassure in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.
• reassure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• erasures