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Reassure

Definitions: Reassure

Reassure

Verb

1. Cause to feel sure; give reassurance to.

2. Give or restore confidence in; cause to feel sure or certain: "I reassured him that we were safe".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "reassure" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)

Synonym: Reassure

Synonym: assure (v). (additional references)
Antonym: worry (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Reassure

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Courage

Give courage, infuse courage, inspire courage; reassure, encourage, embolden, inspirit, cheer, nerve, put upon one's mettle, rally, raise a rallying cry; pat on the back, make a man of., keep in countenance.

Hope

Give hope, inspire hope, raise hope, hold out hope; Noun: promise, bid fair, augur well, be in a fair way, look up, flatter, tell a flattering tale; raise expectations; encourage, cheer, assure, reassure, buoy up, embolden.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Reassure

English words defined with "reassure": Re-. (references)
Specialty definitions using "reassure": CARDIOPULMONARY TECHNOLOGIST, cardiovascular technologis. (references)

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Modern Usage: Reassure

DomainUsage

Screenplays

On his way down past each floor, he kept sayng to reassure himself: So far so good so far so good so far so good. (Haine, La; writing credit: Mathieu Kassovitz)

The thought of the family hovering together terrified really turned me on. It was as if I could go over and reassure them and tell them I would take care of everything. (Without You I'm Nothing; writing credit: Sandra Bernhard; John Boskovich)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Reassure

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Yet, progress in gene therapy and the realization that not all CF mutations are life-threatening should reassure couples. (references)

Your presence can do much to reassure and comfort your child and can make discussion afterward easier for you. Encourage your child to take part and make choices wherever possible. (references)

Business

Offering a well-known and trusted name, as well as a high degree of professionalism, franchised real estate brokerage firms help to reassure buyers in making a significant financial decision. (references)

In order to address the issue of trust of the part of the consumer, hardware and software must be secure in order to reassure customers that their information will remain private during a transaction. (references)

The SENECA sale marked a significant milestone for Venezuela and has done a great deal to reassure investors as it occurred after years of delay and in the midst of the country's severe economic problems and general investor fears of emerging markets. (references)

Economic History

Russia

Although the number of U.S. companies participating in trade exhibitions has decreased in recent years, U.S. firms are advised to exhibit at Russian trade shows, as they remain powerful marketing tools and reassure Russian buyers that the company is committed to maintaining a presence in the Russian market. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Reassure

"Reassure" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 91.09% of the time. "Reassure" is used about 594 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)91.09%54111,416
Lexical Verb (base form)7.73%4650,285
Noun (singular)1.18%7133,076
                    Total100.00%594N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Reassure

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

reassure america life insurance

36

america reassure

33

reassure america life insurance company

19

america life reassure

8

america co insurance life reassure

4

reassure

4

america insurance reassure

4

company insurance life reassure

2

insurance life reassure

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Reassure

Language Translations for "reassure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

siguroj (acquire, assure, avouch, bear, certify, come by, cover, ensure, find, fit out, furnish, guy, haven, house, indemnify, insure, keep, lock up, obtain, procure, provide, purvey, satisfy, secure, supply, take care of, underwrite, vouch, warrant, win), qetësoj (allay, appease, assuage, balsam, becalm, calm, calm down, comfort, conciliate, cool down, ease, gentle, hush, lull, mollify, pacificate, pacify, palliate, placate, propitiate, quiet, quieten, relieve, salve, settle, soften, soothe, tranquilize, tranquillize), bind (assure, bring, bring over, convince, expostulate, get, get round, induce, lead, make smb. listen to reason, outrun, persuade, prevail, prevail upon, remonstrate, rub in). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏وطد (cement, establish, firm), ‏طمئن (assure, promise, rest), ‏أعاد التأمين. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

успокоявам (allay, appease, assuage, becalm, calm, calm down, comfort, compose, conciliate, cool, ease, hush, lull, mitigate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, quiet, quiet down, quieten, relieve, salve, settle, silence, sleek, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize, unbend), уверявам (affirm, assure, profess, satisfy, warrant), вдъхвам увереност, вдъхвам вяра, преосигурявам. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

, 再保险 (reassured, reassuring, reinsurance), 再保証 . (various references)

   

Czech

  

uklidnit (appease, becalm, calm, placate, quell, relax, set at ease, soothe, tranquilize, tranquillize), ujistit (affirm, assure, reinsure). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

دوباره قوت قلب دادن , دوباره اطمینان دادن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

rauhoittaa (appease, calm, protect by law, quiet, set at rest, soothe). (various references)

   

French

  

rassurer. (various references)

   

German

  

versichern (affirm, assure, ensure, indemnify, insure, profess, protest, to affirm, to assure, to ensure, to insure, to reassure), beruhigen (allay, appease, becalm, calm, calm down, comfort, ease, kill, lull, pacify, quiet, quieten, quieten down, relieve, salve, sedate, settle, settle down, smooth, soothe, still, to allay, to appease, to calm, to compose, to pacify, to reassure, to sedate, to tranquilize, to tranquillize). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καθησυχάζω (appease, comfort, placate, quieten, still, tranquilize). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"בטיח (assure, avow, give one's word, make certain, make sure, promise, reserve, vouch), ל"ר'יע (allay, appease, calm, disarm, lull, mollify, pacify, relieve, soothe, still). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megnyugtat (assuage, becalm, calm down, disembarrass, gentle, quell, quiet, quiet down, still, to appease, to assuage, to calm sy down, to gentle, to hush, to lull, to quell, to quiet down, to reassure, to salve, to sedate, to sleek, to solace, to soothe, to still, to stroke down, to stroke sy down, to tranquillize, tranquilize, tranquillize), felbátorít (embolden, encourage, hearten, to embolden, to encourage, to hearten, to put on, to reassure), biztat (encourage, hold out, to hold out, to reassure, to root for). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

mengenakan (don, enrobe, put at case, wear), mengamankan (hand over for shafekeeping, pacify, place inprotective custody, render, safe). (various references)

   

Italian

  

rassicurare (assure, be reassured). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

재보증하십시". (various references)

   

Manx

  

jannoo aaurraghys er, cur creeaght ayn (embolden, encourage, fortify), cur cree da (heartening), aayarrooaghey, aaniartaghey (boost, reaffirm, reaffirmation, refresh, reinforce, reinforcement, reinvigoration). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eassureray

   

Portuguese

  

reassegurar, reanimar (freshen, galvanized, reanimate, refresh, revivify, rub up, vitalize), reafirmar (reaffirm, reassert), tranquilizar (pack, quiet, resettle, settle, still, tranquilize, tranquillize), encorajar novamente, dar novas garantias. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

reasigura (reinsure), potoli (becalm, compromise, dulcify, dull, hush, lighten, lull, mollify, quench, quiet, relieve, slack, slake, smooth, smooth down, sober, solace, stay, still, subdue, suppress, sweeten, temper, tranquillize), linişti (abate, appease, assuage, attemper, becalm, calm, cease, comfort, compose, ease, hush, mitigate, mollify, pacify, quiet, quieten, recompose, rest, salve, serene, settle, smooth, smooth down, soothe, still), domoli (allay, appease, assuage, calm, lighten, mitigate, moderate, mollify, pacify, quiet, remit, soften, soothe), asigura (affix, assure, attach, cover, determine, ensure, fasten, find, fix, guarantee, guard, indemnify, insure, make fast, procure, promise, provide, provide for, secure, underwrite), încuraja (buck up, cheer, countenance, elate, embolden, encourage, fire, hearten, inspire, inspirit, key up, nerve, pep, promote, stimulate, stomach, support, uphold). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

убеждать (admonish, carry conviction, coax, convince, drive home, exhort, gain over, get, induce, persuade, reason, remonstrate, satisfy), заверять (certify, notarize, reassert). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ponovo uveriti. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tranquilizar (be calm, calm, ease, pacify, relieve, salve, tranquilize, tranquillize). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

lugna (allay, appease, becalm, calm, calm down, hush, lull, mollify, pacify, placate, quieten, salve, settle, settle down, soothe, tranquilize, tranquillize). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yeniden güven vermek, tekrar sigortalamak, sigortayı yenilemek, güvenini tazelemek, güvence vermek (give security, plight, put up security, stand security). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

hцre-kцюe etmek (calm, soothe), haя-kьюetmek (calm, soothe). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

умовляти (admonish, blandish, cajole, expostulate, persuade, ply, tempt, woo, word), знову запевняти. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Reassure

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

confirma, confirmabantur, confirmabit, confirmabunt, confirmamini, confirmanda, confirmandas, confirmandos, confirmans, confirmante, confirmantes, confirmare, confirmarentur, confirmaret, confirmasset, confirmasti, confirmat, confirmata, confirmate, confirmati, confirmato, confirmatos, confirmatum, confirmatur, confirmatus, confirmatusque, confirmaverunt, confirmavi, confirmavit, confirmavitque, confirmentur, confirmes, confirmet, confirmetis, confirmetur. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Reassure

Derivations

Words beginning with "reassure": reassured, reassures. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Reassure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: preassure, preasure, Raizure, rasuer, reaasure, reasssure, reassurer, reasure, reasury, Reussir. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Reassure"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "reassure" (pronounced rē'ushuh"r)
4-u sh uh" rassure.
3-sh uh" rbrochure, ensure, insure, reinsure, sure, unsure.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Reassure

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: erasures.

Words within the letters "a-e-e-r-r-s-s-u"

-1 letter: assurer, erasers, erasure, rasures, reseaus, ureases.

-2 letters: assure, eraser, erases, rasers, rasure, reseau, reuses, sarees, searer, surras, urares, urases, urease.

-3 letters: arses, aures, eases, erase, erses, rares, raser, rases, rears, reuse, ruers, ruses, saree, sears, seers, serer, seres, suers, suras, surer, surra, urare, urase, ureas, ursae, users.

-4 letters: ares, arse, ears, ease, eras, errs, eses, rare, rase, rear, rees, ruer, rues, ruse, sear, seas, seer, sees, sera, sere, sers, suer, sues, sura, sure, urea, ursa, user, uses.

-5 letters: are, ars, ass, ear, eau, era, ere, err, ers, ess, ras, ree, res, rue, sae, sau, sea, see, ser, sue, use.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-r-r-s-s-u"
 

+1 letter: ecraseurs, measurers, rearouses, reassured, reassures, treasures.

 

+2 letters: embrasures, persuaders, remeasures, resurfaces, saunterers, superraces, treasurers, treasuries.

 

+3 letters: acupressure, chartreuses, coursewares, lusterwares, natriureses, premeasures, racecourses, reassurance, repurchases, resurfacers, squanderers, warehousers.

 

+4 letters: acupressures, barrelhouses, masqueraders, pasteurizers, prepurchases, reassurances, reinsurances, sauerbratens, secularizers, slaughterers, subsecretary, sugarberries, superalterns, supercargoes, supercharges, superhardens, superheaters, superlawyers, supermarkets, supernatures, superplayers, superrealism, supertankers, watercourses.

 

+5 letters: harquebusiers, housebreakers, hypersurfaces, mercurialness, overpersuades, oversaturates, prayerfulness, prematureness, quarterstaves, regardfulness, restaurateurs, sensorineural, squirearchies, stercoraceous, subterraneous, subtreasuries, supercarriers, superchargers, superpersonal, superrealisms, supersaturate, treasurership, undersurfaces, unembarrassed, waterthrushes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Reassure


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 61 73 73 75 72 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    .    .-    ...    ...    ..-    .-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01100001 01110011 01110011 01110101 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#97 &#115 &#115 &#117 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0061 0073 0073 0075 0072 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5271678585878471

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Translations: Ancient
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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