secure
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
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. Doublet of sure and the now obsolete or dialectal sicker (“certain, safe”).
Inflected forms:
form: securer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more secure
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: securest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most secure
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: secuer
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: secures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: securing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: secured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: secured
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: secure
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: secure
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: secured
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: secure
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: securest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: secured
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: securedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: secures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: secureth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: secured
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: secure
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: secured
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: secure
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: secured
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: secure
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: securing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: secured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: secuer
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Free from attack or danger; protected.
pos: adj
examples: The vast majority of American Jews not only greatly dislike President Trump but also believe he has made them less safe: according to a May 2019 poll, nearly three-quarters of Jewish voters believe American Jews are less secure under Trump than they were before, 71 percent disapprove of Trump’s overall job performance, and nearly 60 percent believe that he bears at least some responsibility for the synagogue shootings carried out by white nationalists in Pittsburgh and Poway.
gloss: Free from the danger of theft; safe.
pos: adj
gloss: Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
pos: adj
gloss: Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
pos: adj
examples: But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes.
No sooner were we up there, than the old woman dragged the ladder, by which we had ascended, away with a chuckle, as if she was now secure that we could do no mischief, and sat herself down again once more, to doze and await her master's return.
gloss: Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
pos: adj
gloss: Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
pos: adj
gloss: Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of.
pos: adj
examples: secure of a welcome
Confidence then bore thee on, secure / Either to meet no danger, or to find / Matter of glorious trial.
gloss: Overconfident; incautious; careless.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: They were secure where they ought to have been wary, and timorous where they might well have been secure.
gloss: Certain to be achieved or gained; assured.
pos: adj
examples: Just when victory seemed secure, they let it slip from their grasp.
gloss: To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
pos: verb
examples: I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, / Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.
gloss: To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against or from, or formerly with of.
pos: verb
examples: to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage
It secures its possessor of eternal happiness.
gloss: To fix in place; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
pos: verb
examples: to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship
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.
gloss: To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.
pos: verb
examples: to secure an estate
With the Argentinian secured United will step up their attempt to sign a midfielder and, possibly, a defender in the closing days of the transfer window. Juventus’s Arturo Vidal, Milan’s Nigel de Jong and Ajax’s Daley Blind, who is also a left-sided defensive player, are potential targets.
[Captain] was able to secure some good photographs of the fortress.
One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
gloss: To plight or pledge.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
Antonyms: insecure
Related words: security
Derived words: biosecure
cybersecure
food-secure
nonsecure
securance
securely
secureness
securonomics
self-secure
supersecure
ultrasecure
oversecure
unsecure
countersecure
resecure
securability
securable
secure arms
securement
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: осигурявам
roman: osigurjavam
lang: Bulgarian
word: гарантирам
roman: garantiram
lang: Czech
word: jistit
lang: Czech
word: zajistit
lang: Dutch
word: verzekeren
lang: Esperanto
word: sekurigi
lang: Finnish
word: turvata
lang: Finnish
word: suojata
lang: Finnish
word: varmistaa
lang: Finnish
word: kiinnittää
lang: French
word: sécuriser
lang: German
word: sichern
lang: German
word: absichern
lang: Greek
word: σιγουρεύω
roman: sigourévo
lang: Indonesian
word: mengamankan
lang: Irish
word: urraigh
lang: Italian
word: garantire
lang: Italian
word: proteggere
lang: Italian
word: mettere al sicuro
lang: Italian
word: assicurare
lang: Latin
word: munio
lang: Manx
word: shickyree
lang: Māori
word: whakangita
lang: Māori
word: tāmau
lang: Portuguese
word: assegurar
lang: Spanish
word: segurar
lang: Spanish
word: asegurar
lang: Spanish
word: segurizar
lang: Spanish
word: securizar
lang: Swahili
word: usalamu