assure
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Letters
- 6
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Definition of assure
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
- (transitive)To make sure and secure; ensure.
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verb
- (transitive)To make sure and secure; ensure.
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(transitive)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.”
“He assured of his commitment to her happiness.”
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(obsolete)To guarantee, promise (to do something).
“That as a law for euer should endure; / Which to obserue in word of knights they did assure.”
- (transitive)To reassure.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Old French asseurer (Modern French assurer), from Latin ad- + securus (“secure”). Cognate with Spanish asegurar. Doublet of assecure.
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