reassure

verb
/ˌɹi.əˈʃʊə(ɹ)/UK/ˌɹi.əˈʃʊɹ/US

Etymology

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

  1. derived from rasseürer

Definitions

  1. 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.
  2. To reinsure.

The neighborhood

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.

01reassure02self-doubt03abilities04ability05necessary06achieve07successfully08successful09assuring10reassuring

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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