assure
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See also assuré
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Old French asseürer (Modern French assurer), from Latin ad- + securus (“secure”).
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Verb
assure (third-person singular simple present assures, present participle assuring, simple past and past participle assured)
- To make sure and secure.
- (ditransitive) To give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of (something).
- I assure you that the program will work smoothly when we demonstrate it to the client.
- (obsolete) To guarantee, promise (to do something).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii:
- That as a law for euer should endure; / Which to obserue in word of knights they did assure.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii:
- To reassure.
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[edit] Translations
to make sure and secure
to give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
to reassure
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[edit] French
[edit] Verb
assure
- first-person singular present indicative of assurer
- third-person singular present indicative of assurer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of assurer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of assurer
- second-person singular imperative of assurer
