Meaning

5 senses
  1. To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.

    sichern, absichern

  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.

    to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage

    закрі́плюватиzakrípljuvaty, закріпля́тиzakripljáty, закріпи́тиzakripýty

    make certain of

  3. To fix in place; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.

    to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship

  4. To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.

    to secure an estate

    Her achievements have secured her place in the annals of our nation

  5. (obsolete, transitive)To plight or pledge.

Examples

182 sentences
  1. Is it secure?

    Це безпечно? — deniko

  2. Please choose a more secure password.

    Будь ласка, оберіть більш надійний пароль. — deniko

  3. I'm beginning to feel quite secure.

    ruЯ начинаю чувствовать себя довольно уверенно. — marafon

  4. Tom strikes me as pretty secure.

  5. He has managed to secure several accounts.

Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to make fast, to firmly affix:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to make secure:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin sēcūrus (“of persons, free from care, quiet, easy; in a bad sense, car

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. Doublet of sure and the now obsolete or dialectal sicker (“certain, safe”).

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Forms

secures, securing, secured, secured
Base formsecure · to secure
3rd person singularsecures
Present participlesecuring
Past simplesecured
Past participlesecured

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysecure
he, she, itsecures

Past simpleLesson

all personssecured

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave secured
he, she, ithas secured

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill secure

Synonyms

11 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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