secure
Forms
- Comparative
- securer
- Superlative
- securest
- present (v1)
- secure
- past (v2)
- secured
- past participle (v3)
- secured
- present participle
- securing
- 3rd person singular
- secures
Definitions
1.Free from attack or danger; protected.
2.Free from the danger of theft; safe.
3.Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
4.Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
1.To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
- I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, / Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.
2.To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against or from, or formerly with of.
- It secures its possessor of eternal happiness.
3.To fix in place; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
- All springs for the engine and tender are of the laminated type with plates of carbon steel, which are secured in the spring buckles by a vertical centre rivet.
4.To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2537
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Word family
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sēcūrus (“of persons, free from care, quiet, easy; in a bad sense, careless, reckless; of things, tranquil, also free from danger, safe, secure”), from sē- (“without”) + cūra (“care”); see cure.