Expect and Reassure

Expect

Expect verb - To believe in the future occurrence of (something).
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Synonyms for Expect

Reassure and expect are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Reassure" instead a verb "Expect".

Reassure

Reassure verb - To ease the grief or distress of.

Expect and reassure are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Expect" instead a verb "Reassure".

Common collocations

character expect character reassure character
people expect people reassure people
audience expect audience reassure audience
times expect times reassure times

Both words in one sentence

  • Comic Book / Johnny the Homicidal Maniac His attempt to reassure said child unfortunately goes about as well as you would expect, especially because he kind of ripped the pedophile's brain out in front of him.
  • First Kiss Her sister Amber tries to reassure her on that point, and she goes on to have a genuine first kiss with Andy — which actually turns out to be less dramatic or significant than the trope has taught her to expect, because she's thinking about something else at the time.
    Source: First Kiss
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