Word Meanings - ASSURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 by a promise, declaration, or other evidence. His promise that thy seed shall bruise our foe . . . Assures me that the bitterness of death Is past, and we shall live. Milton. 2. To declare to, solemnly; to assert to with the design of inspiring belief or confidence. I dare assure thee that no enemy Shall ever take alive the noble Brutus. Shak. 3. To confirm; to make certain or secure. And it shall be assured to him. Lev. xxvii. 19. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. 1 John iii. 19. 4. To affiance; to betroth. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ASSURE)

• Buoy
• Float
• support
• sustain
• elevate
• elate
• assure
• animate
• cheer
• inspire
• Certify
• Acknowledge
• aver
• attest
• vouch
• avow
• avouch
• testify
• protest
• declare
• demonstrate
• prove
• evidence
• inform
• Promise
• Engage
• Protest
• Expostulate
• remonstrate
• denounce
• repudiate
• deprecate
• affirm
• Satisfy
• Satiate
• content
• sate
• please
• fill
• gratify
• suffice
• recompense
• compensate
• remunerate
• indemnify
• convince
• meet
• fulfil

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ASSURE)

• Drop
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• discontinue
• oppose
• discourage
• weaken
• exhaust
• thwart
• discountenance
• disfavor
• subvert
• suppress

Related words: (words related to ASSURE)

• PROVENTRIULUS
  The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
• PROVERBIAL
  1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• SUSTAIN
  F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
• ASSURER
  1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• CONTENTMENT
  1. The state of being contented or satisfied; content. Contentment without external honor is humility. Grew. Godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Tim. vi. 6. 2. The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• CONTENTLY
  In a contented manner.
• AVOUCHMENT
  The act of avouching; positive declaration. Milton.
• INFORMOUS
  Of irregular form; shapeless. Sir T. Browne.
• AFFIRMATIVELY
  In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
• DENOUNCE
  denunciare; de- + nunciare, nuntiare, to announce, report, nuntius a 1. To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim . Denouncing wrath to come. Milton. I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish. Deut. xxx.
• PROVENCAL
  Of or pertaining to Provence or its inhabitants.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• SUSTAINABLE
  Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• AVOUCHABLE
  Capable of being avouched.
• FLOATATION
  See FLOTATION
• ACKNOWLEDGE
  1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• INEVIDENCE
  Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
• MANDELATE
  A salt of mandelic acid.
• COMPROMISE
  promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
• WELL-INFORMED
  Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• UNPROMISE
  To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman.