REASSURE

reassure

(verb) give or restore confidence in; cause to feel sure or certain; “I reassured him that we were safe”

reassure, assure

(verb) cause to feel sure; give reassurance to; “The airline tried to reassure the customers that the planes were safe”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

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

(transitive) To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or self-doubt.

(transitive) To reinsure.

Anagrams

• erasures

Source: Wiktionary


Re`as*sure", v. t.

1. To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or terror. They rose with fear, . . . Till dauntless Pallas reassured the rest. Dryden.

2. To reinsure.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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DIRECTIONALITY

(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”


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