reassures

VERB

restore confidence to

Synonyms

STRONGEST

assure bolster buoy cheer comfort console convince encourage hearten inspire relieve

STRONG

brace guarantee inspirit

WEAK

give a lift give confidence perk up pick up put one's mind to rest snap one out of it

Antonyms

STRONGEST

annoy bring down depress discourage dishearten dispirit dissuade hurt trouble upset

WEAK

unnerve

Example Sentences

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It contains skins and skeletons of climbing kangaroos, flying phalangers, bandicoots, two very rare musk kangaroos, wombats, Tasmanian devils, spotted dasyures and other exotic beasts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Kangaroos of eight or nine feet in stature leaped over the primeval bush, and wombats and dasyures of elephantine bulk burrowed in the hill sides, and great lion-like beasts prowled about the plains.

From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry