different between reassert vs reassure

English

Etymology

re- +? assert

Verb

reassert (third-person singular simple present reasserts, present participle reasserting, simple past and past participle reasserted)

1. assert again
   • 2006, Nikki R. Keddie, Yann Richard, Modern Iran: roots and results of revolution, Yale University Press, page 120

     They were tied to a revived religious class that took advantage of the end of anticlerical despotism to reassert Islamic views and practices and to regain some of their former sociopolitical status.

Derived terms

• reassertion

Translations

Anagrams

• asserter, rearsets, serrates, terrasse

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i?????(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?i?????/

Verb

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.

Related terms

• reassurance

Translations

References

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

Anagrams

• erasures