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Secure

verb

(past & past part. secured; pres. part. securing)

1.

Get by special effort. Synonym: procure.

2.

Cause to be firmly attached. Synonyms: fasten, fix. "She fixed her gaze on the man"

3.

Assure payment of.

4.

Make certain of. Synonyms: assure, ensure, guarantee, insure. "Preparation will guarantee success!"

5.

Fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug. Synonyms: plug, stop up. "Stop up the leak"

6.

Furnish with battens. Synonyms: batten, batten down.

adjective

1.

Free from fear or doubt; easy in mind. Synonyms: unafraid, untroubled.

2.

Free from danger or risk. "His fortune was secure" , "Made a secure place for himself in his field"

3.

Not likely to fail or give way. "A secure foundation" , "A secure hold on her wrist"

4.

Immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with. Synonyms: impregnable, inviolable, strong, unassailable, unattackable. "Fortifications that made the frontier inviolable" , "A secure telephone connection"

5.

Financially sound. Synonyms: dependable, good, safe. "A secure investment"

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... infinitely better, gold and silver, and abounding in every thing that could pamper the pride and gratify the sense, founded churches and monasteries, while her viceroys built cities and forts, and South America became the richest jewel in the diadem of His Catholic Majesty. To secure this jewel entirely to himself seems to have been his chief anxiety, and accordingly all foreigners were rigidly excluded from its sea-ports, and although the "Assiento," or contract for supplying the colonies with African slaves, was enjoyed successively ...

— An Old Sailor's Yarns • Nathaniel Ames

... once reverted to the original theory of thieves; and I blamed myself sharply for my last night's inaction. I examined all the windows on the lower story, but none of them had been tampered with; I tried the padlocks, but they were both secure. It thus became a problem how the thieves, if thieves they were, had managed to enter the house. They must have got, I reasoned, upon the roof of the outhouse where Northmour used to keep his photographic battery; and from thence, either by the window of the study or ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... your friend may be sure of his situation," was the amiable reply; "you know it is our duty to watch these people well. I think your friend may deem himself secure." ...

— The Old Homestead • Ann S. Stephens

... undertake I will do with my might, and, win or lose, accept the result with good cheer. I would rather be worthy of success than to secure ...

— Principles of Teaching • Adam S. Bennion

... night to an upper loft of a kind of tower in one of the out-houses, where he and the gamekeeper would mount guard. After much deliberation this measure was adopted; the premises in question were examined and made secure, and Christy and his trusty ally, the one armed with a fowling-piece, the other with an ancient blunderbuss, turned out as sentries to keep watch over ...

— Bracebridge Hall • Washington Irving

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