Ensure

Quick meaning: Ensure is a verb meaning (intransitive) To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).

Meaning

(intransitive) To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).

More Meanings

1. (transitive, obsolete) To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.

Example Sentences

I use an alarm clock to ensure that I get up on time.

Thenne he cryed hym mercy and sayd Faire knyght for goddes loue slee me not / and I shall ensure the neuer werre ageynst thy lady / but be alwey toward her / Thenne Bors lete hym be

British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.

Word Forms

• ensures
• ensuring
• ensured

Synonyms for ensure

Depending on context, synonyms include ascertain, control, assure, secure, see, check.

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