reassure

See also: réassuré, réassure, and re-assure

English

Alternative forms

• re-assure

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɹi.əˈʃʊə(ɹ)/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɹi.əˈʃʊɹ/, /ˌɹi.əˈʃɝ/
• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)

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.

   • 2022 August 13, Sarah Wu, David Kirton, Ben Blanchard, quoting Tsai Ing-wen, “Taiwan thanks U.S. for maintaining security in Taiwan Strait”, in Tom Hogue, Michael Perry, William Mallard, editors, Reuters‎^[1], archived from the original on 13 August 2022, World:

     "Taiwanese are very enthusiastic and love freedom and democracy, so many good international friends have come to Taiwan to support us. This is a normal and good thing, but China threatens and intimidates Taiwan," she said.
     "However, I would like to reassure everyone that both our government and the military are prepared, and I will definitely take care of Taiwan."

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: lasaitu
• Belarusian: запэ́ўніваць impf (zapéŭnivacʹ), запэ́ўніць pf (zapéŭnicʹ)
• Bulgarian: уверявам (bg) (uverjavam), убеждавам (bg) (ubeždavam)
• Catalan: tranquil·litzar (ca)
• Chinese:

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

• Danish: berolige
• Dutch: geruststellen (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: rauhoittaa (fi), tyynnytellä (fi)
• French: tranquilliser (fr), rassurer (fr)
• Galician: tranquilizar, acalmar (gl), apouvigar
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: versichern (de), beruhigen (de)
• Hungarian: megnyugtat (hu)
• Italian: rassicurare (it), tranquillizzare (it)
• Khmer: ធ្វើអោយ​មានការ​ទុកចិត្ដ (thvəəʼaoy-miən-kaa-tukcət)
• Korean: 안심시키다 (ko) (ansimsikida)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دڵ نیا (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
• Romanian: liniști (ro)
• 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: trấn an (vi)

to reinsure

• Bulgarian: презастраховам (prezastrahovam)
• Finnish: vakuuttaa (fi)
• French: réassurer (fr)
• Hungarian: viszontbiztosít
• Romanian: asigura (ro)
• Russian: перестрахо́вывать (ru) impf (perestraxóvyvatʹ), перестрахова́ть (ru) pf (perestraxovátʹ)
• Slovak: znovupoistiť
• Spanish: reasegurar

References

• “reassure”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “reassure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• erasures