reassure

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹiəˈʃʊə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹiəˈʃʊɹ/

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.

2. (transitive) To reinsure.

• reassurance

• reassure in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• reassure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• erasures