See ensure on Wiktionary
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],
"derived": [
{
"word": "ensurer"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "ensuren"
},
"expansion": "Middle English ensuren",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "xno",
"3": "enseurer"
},
"expansion": "Anglo-Norman enseurer",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "seur",
"4": "",
"5": "sure"
},
"expansion": "Old French seur (“sure”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
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"forms": [
{
"form": "ensures",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "ensuring",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "ensured",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ensured",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "ensure (third-person singular simple present ensures, present participle ensuring, simple past and past participle ensured)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "insure"
},
{
"word": "assure"
},
{
"word": "inshore"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs",
"Middle English terms with quotations",
"Requests for translations of Middle English quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xvj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVI (in Middle English):",
"text": "Thenne he cryed hym mercy and sayd Faire knyght for goddes loue slee me not / and I shall ensure the neuer werre ageynst thy lady / but be alwey toward her / Thenne Bors lete hym be",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure."
],
"links": [
[
"pledge",
"pledge"
],
[
"promise",
"promise"
],
[
"guarantee",
"guarantee"
],
[
"assure",
"assure"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I use an alarm clock to ensure that I get up on time.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:",
"text": "British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition)."
],
"links": [
[
"sure",
"sure"
],
[
"certain",
"certain"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition)."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɪnˈʃʊə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɪnˈʃɔː/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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},
{
"ipa": "/ɪnˈʃʊɹ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɪnˈʃɝ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔː(ɹ)"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊə(ɹ)"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "təmin etmək"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "segurtatu"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "upeŭnicca",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "упэўніцца"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "upeŭnivacca",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "упэўнівацца"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "pjerakanacca",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "пераканацца"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "pjerakónvacca",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "пераконвацца"
},
{
"code": "br",
"lang": "Breton",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "asuri"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "osigurjavam",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "осигурявам"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "確保"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "quèbǎo",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "确保"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "zajistit"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "verzekeren"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "varmistaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "s’assurer"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "garantir"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "assurer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "sicherstellen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "gewährleisten"
},
{
"code": "ht",
"lang": "Haitian Creole",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "asire"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "certigar"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "garantire"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "assicurare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "fare in modo che"
},
{
"code": "khb",
"lang": "Lü",
"roman": "ʼaamẋaam¹",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "ᦁᦱᦙᦃᦱᧄᧈ"
},
{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "uṟappākkū",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "ഉറപ്പാക്കൂ"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "shickyree"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "whakatūturu"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zapewnić"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "zapewniać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "upewnić"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "upewniać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "utwierdzić"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "garantir"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "assegurar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "asigura"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "udostovéritʹsja",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "удостове́риться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ubedítʹsja",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "убеди́ться"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "asegurarse"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "garantizarse"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "se till"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "säkerställa"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "sağlamak"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "garantiye almak"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "emin olmak"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zabezpéčuvaty",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "забезпе́чувати"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zabezpéčyty",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "забезпе́чити"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "harantuváty",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "гарантува́ти"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "make sure or certain",
"word": "sicrháu"
}
],
"word": "ensure"
}
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