reassure
verb/ˌɹi.əˈʃʊə(ɹ)/UK/ˌɹi.əˈʃʊɹ/US
Etymology
From Old French rasseürer (French rassurer), from re- + asseürer; as if re- + assure.
- derived from rasseürer
Definitions
To assure anew
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.
- What is more, I call upon the greater part of you as witnesses to my statement, and I appeal to all of you who have ever listened to me talking (and there are a great many to whom this applies) to reassure one another on this point.
To reinsure.
The neighborhood
- neighborreassurance
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at reassure. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at reassure. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at reassure
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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