Assure

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  • transitive verb. To inform positively, as to remove doubt.
  • transitive verb. To cause to feel sure.
  • transitive verb. To give confidence to; reassure.
  • transitive verb. To make certain; ensure.
  • transitive verb. To make safe or secure.
  • transitive verb. To insure, as against loss.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make sure or certain; convince or make confident, as by a promise, declaration, or other evidence: as, to assure a person of one's favor or love.
  • To declare solemnly to; assert earnestly to; endeavor to convince by assertion: as, I assure you I am speaking the truth.
  • To secure or confirm; make sure to be or to continue; give certainty or stability to: as, to assure a person's position or possessions.
  • To free from obscurity, ambiguity, or uncertainty.
  • To embolden; make confident.
  • To affiance; betroth.
  • To insure, as against loss.
  • To confide; trust.
  • To promise; pledge one's self.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.
  • transitive verb. To declare to, solemnly; to assert to (any one) with the design of inspiring belief or confidence.
  • transitive verb. To confirm; to make certain or secure.
  • transitive verb. To affiance; to betroth.
  • transitive verb. To insure; to covenant to indemnify for loss, or to pay a specified sum at death. See Insure.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To make sure and secure.
  • verb. To give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of (something).
  • verb. To guarantee, promise (to do something).
  • verb. To reassure.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. assure somebody of the truth of something with the intention of giving the listener confidence
  • verb. make certain of
  • verb. cause to feel sure; give reassurance to
  • verb. be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
  • verb. inform positively and with certainty and confidence
  • verb. make a promise or commitment
  • Word Usage
    "For example, if a motive for anti-zionism is “a similarly tribalistic concern for the welfare of the Palestinians, as Palestinians”, but oppose a two state solution where Jews may maintain assure welfare by similar means, then they are giving rights to one for the express concern of giving it to another."
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    insure  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    affirm  assert  aver  avow  calm  
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    doom  make  
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    Baldur  Bloor  Moor  Moore  Muir  
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