Word Meanings - ASSECURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make sure or safe; to assure. Hooker.

ASSURER
1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy.
ASSUREDLY
Certainly; indubitably. "The siege assuredly I'll raise." Shak.
ASSURED
Made sure; safe; insured; certain; indubitable; not doubting; bold to excess.
ASSUREDNESS
The state of being assured; certainty; full confidence.
ASSURE
To insure; to covenant to indemnify for loss, or to pay a specified sum at death. See Insure. Syn. -- To declare; aver; avouch; vouch; assert; asseverate; protest; persuade; convince. (more info) 1. To make sure or certain; to render confident
HOOKER
1. One who, or that which, hooks. A Dutch vessel with two masts. A fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of Ireland. A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft.
UNASSURED
1. Not assured; not bold or confident. 2. Not to be trusted. Spenser. 3. Not insured against loss; as, unassured goods.
REASSURER
One who reassures.
REASSURE
1. To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or terror. They rose with fear, . . . Till dauntless Pallas reassured the rest. Dryden. 2. To reinsure.
SELF-ASSURED
Assured by or of one's self; self-reliant; complacent.