reassure

See also: réassuré and réassure

English

Etymology

Old French rasseürer, from re- + asseürer; as if re- +‎ assure.

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 terror.
2. (transitive) To reinsure.

Translations

to assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or terror

• 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)

• 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:

  Sorani: دڵ نیا

• Latvian: drošināt
• Maori: whakatītina, whakamanawa
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: upewniać impf, upewnić 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)
• Spanish: tranquilizar (es)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

to reinsure

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

• Russian: перестрахо́вывать impf ‎(perestraxóvyvatʹ), перестрахова́ть (ru) pf ‎(perestraxovátʹ)

Related terms

• reassurance

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