ensure
Meaning
- (intransitive) To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
- (obsolete, transitive) To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.
Synonyms
make sure of something
make certain
Translations
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɪnˈʃʊə/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English ensuren, from Anglo-Norman enseurer, from Old French seur (“sure”). Doublet of insure.
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