Confirm vs. Reassure — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Confirm and Reassure
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Confirm
To support or establish the certainty or validity of; verify
Confirm a rumor.
Reassure
To restore confidence to
I felt reassured that I was up to the job.
Confirm
To reaffirm the establishment of (a reservation or advance arrangement).
Reassure
To assure again
We reassured him that the project was on schedule.
Confirm
To make firmer; strengthen
Working on the campaign confirmed her intention to go into politics.
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Reassure
To reinsure.
Confirm
To make valid or binding by a formal or legal act; ratify.
Reassure
(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.
Confirm
To administer the religious rite of confirmation to.
Reassure
(transitive) To reinsure.
Confirm
To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.
Reassure
To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or terror.
They rose with fear, . . . Till dauntless Pallas reassured the rest.
Confirm
To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).
Reassure
To reinsure.
Confirm
To assure the accuracy of previous statements.
Reassure
Cause to feel sure; give reassurance to;
The airline tried to reassure the customers that the planes were safe
Confirm
To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.
Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs.
And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law.
Reassure
Give or restore confidence in; cause to feel sure or certain;
I reassured him that we were safe
Confirm
To strengthen in judgment or purpose.
Confirmed, then, I resolveAdam shall share with me in bliss or woe.
Confirm
To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor.
Your eyes shall witness and confirm my tale.
These likelihoods confirm her flight.
Confirm
To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify; as, to confirm the appoinment of an official; the Senate confirms a treaty.
That treaty so prejudicial ought to have been remitted rather than confimed.
Confirm
To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3.
Those which are thus confirmed are thereby supposed to be fit for admission to the sacrament.
Confirm
Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts;
His story confirmed my doubts
The evidence supports the defendant
Confirm
Strengthen or make more firm;
The witnesses confirmed the victim's account
Confirm
Make more firm;
Confirm thy soul in self-control!
Confirm
As of a person to a position;
The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense
Confirm
Administer the rite of confirmation to;
The children were confirmed in their mother's faith
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