different between reassume vs reassure

English

Etymology

From re- +? assume.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i???sju?m/

Verb

reassume (third-person singular simple present reassumes, present participle reassuming, simple past and past participle reassumed)

1. To resume, to carry on (a practice, thought, occupation etc.) again.
2. To take on or adopt again.

   The next day he reassumed his disguise.

   The British reassumed control of the region.

3. (now rare) To take back into one's possession.
   • 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:

     What some lament of, we rather should rejoyce at, should rather praise this pious forwardnes among men, to reassume the ill deputed care of their Religion into their own hands again.

Synonyms

• resume

Anagrams

• measures

Italian

Verb

reassume

1. third-person singular present indicative of reassumere

Anagrams

• assumere

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