reassure
/ˌɹi.əˈʃʊɹ/ verb C1- 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.
- To reinsure.
He/she/it reassures · Past reassured · Past participle reassured · -ing form reassuring
Verb forms
- Base form
- reassure
- He/she/it
- reassures
- Past
- reassured
- Past participle
- reassured
- -ing form
- reassuring
From the library
Reassure yourself, then, and say to yourself: ‘At this moment, a friend, a father, who lives for my happiness and that of Maximilian, watches over me!’”
The silence of the deserted street reassured him.
I stepped up to her with a few reassuring words, and she lay still while I took her pulse and temperature.
“To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H.,” was engraved upon it, with the date “1884.” It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry—dignified, solid, and reassuring.
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