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REASSURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reassure mean? 

REASSURE (verb)
  The verb REASSURE has 2 senses:

1. cause to feel sure; give reassurance toplay

2. give or restore confidence in; cause to feel sure or certainplay

  Familiarity information: REASSURE used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


REASSURE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they reassure  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it reassures  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: reassured  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: reassured  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: reassuring  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to feel sure; give reassurance to

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

assure; reassure

Context example:

The airline tried to reassure the customers that the planes were safe

Hypernyms (to "reassure" is one way to...):

calm; calm down; lull; quiet; quieten; still; tranquilize; tranquillise; tranquillize (make calm or still)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

The good news will reassure her
The performance is likely to reassure Sue

Antonym:

worry (disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress)

Derivation:

reassurance (the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Give or restore confidence in; cause to feel sure or certain

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

I reassured him that we were safe

Hypernyms (to "reassure" is one way to...):

assure (assure somebody of the truth of something with the intention of giving the listener confidence)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody of something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

Sam cannot reassure Sue

Derivation:

reassurance (the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence)


 Context examples 


The silence of the deserted street reassured him.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

" I asked. His answer was not reassuring: "I know you well enough; you are the old fool Van Helsing.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"That's all right," was the reassuring answer.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But the mere fact that he was a man, however wild, had somewhat reassured me, and my fear of Silver began to revive in proportion.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You have been ill, very ill, and even the constant letters of dear kind Henry are not sufficient to reassure me on your account.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Then came the long sniff, as White Fang reassured himself that his god was still inside and had not yet taken himself off in mysterious and solitary flight.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“Candidly, I do not know,” I strove to reassure her.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Then, reassured by the absolute stillness and by the growing light, I took my courage in both hands and stole back along the path which I had come.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A commonplace, practical reply, out of the train of his own disturbed ideas, was, I was sure, the best and most reassuring for him in this frame of mind.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But a friendly little yelp reassured him, and he went back to investigate.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)



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