ensure

Ensure is defined as to make something certain or safe.

(verb)

An example of ensure is for a teenager to make sure that his little brother gets home from school safely.

See ensure in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb ensured, ensuring

Origin: ME ensuren < Anglo-Fr enseurer (for OFr asseurer: see assure) < en- (see en-) + OFr seur, sure

See ensure in American Heritage Dictionary 4

transitive verb en·sured, en·sur·ing, en·sures

To make sure or certain; insure: Our precautions ensured our safety. See Usage Note at assure.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English ensuren

Origin: , from Anglo-Norman enseurer

Origin: : Old French en-, causative pref.; see en-¹

Origin: + Old French seur, secure

Origin: , variant of sur; see sure

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