Word Finder - ensure

definition

To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.

definition

To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).

example

I use an alarm clock to ensure that I get up on time.

She froze then looked around to ensure no one was there to overhear them.

To ensure this preferred outcome came to fruition.

She made him what he was, but his suffering was necessary to ensure his survival.

They will at least ensure for him an honourable place in the history of the modern Spanish theatre.

He was reluctant to ensure an unknown risk.

She hid the phone as Talon glanced over his shoulder again to ensure she followed.

I must protect them and ensure their honor and mine remains intact.

Disbelief made her look twice to ensure her eyes hadn't gone as crazy as her thoughts.

Maybe he wanted to ensure I didn't kill you before we were bound.

Italian charity legislation was reformed by the laws of 1862 and 1890, which attempted to provide efficacious protection for endowments, and to ensure the application of the ir.come to the purposes for which it was intended.

Security will be on the door to ensure exclusivity.

That he's chosen you as his mate will basically ensure the continued existence of life as we know it.

I've checked on your little human almost every day to ensure what I planned for her was not altered by Darkyn's bloodlust.

I was trying to figure out what was there, not to remove it, but to ensure no one else could either.

The Qatwali warriors had looked her over in full light, as if to ensure she was no threat, then dismissed her with a look that said she ranked lower than the tarantula cat clinging to one wall.

What it does not do is ensure that everyone who applies will get a place.

We obviously have to ensure the security of our school students whilst meeting the expectations of adult users.

It was, however, the need to ensure command of the sea and free all lines of communication behind him that determined Alexander's plan for the next campaign.

For example, further exemplification to ensure a Level 4 judgment at KS2 would also be judged a Level 4 at KS3.

Take care to apply the fertilizer evenly to ensure best results.

Rissa's sharp glance found him twice, as if to ensure he continued to follow them.

The signals must therefore be sent at regular intervals, and to ensure this being done correctly a telephone or time-tapper is provided at each keyboard to warn the operator of the correct moment to depress his keys.

Harcourt were too strained to ensure either the harmonious working or the stability of the administration.

The tank must be water-tight, and the precaution necessary to be taken in order to ensure this is dependent upon the nature of the soil; it is usual, however, for the tanks to be lined with concrete.

The explanations suggested were that he had made himself very popular at Rome and that his appointment was therefore calculated to strengthen the loosening bonds of the Triple Alliance, and also that his early close association with Bismarck would ensure the maintenance of the Bismarckian tradition.

Joint deliberation would ensure a majority to the reformers and therefore the abolition of privileges and the extinction of feudal rights of property.

Amulets are worn to ensure success in buying, selling, hunting, fishing and in war, as well as for protection against evil.

Again, benefices were kept vacant for long periods in order to ensure to the lord as long as possible the exercise of his regalian rights.

A blank experiment should always be carried out in testing for small quantities of arsenic, to ensure that the materials used are quite free from traces of arsenic. It is to be noted that the presence of nitric acid interferes with the Marsh test; and also that if the arsenic is present as an arsenic compound it must be reduced to the arsenious condition by the action of sulphurous acid.

The monarchical principle no longer sufficed to ensure social discipline; the fear of lorfeiting the grant became the only powerful guarantee of obedience, and as this only applied to his personal vassals, Charlemagne gave up his claim to direct obedience from the test of the people, accepting the mediation of the counts, lords and bishops, who levied taxes, adjudicated and administered in virtue of the privileges of patronage, not of the right of the state.

The opportunity of founding political liberty upon the vote and the control of taxation, and of organizing the administration of the kingdom so as to ensure that the entire military and financial resources should be always available, was gone beyond recall.

To put a stop to this, to ensure his own access to the Mediterranean and exclude his chief rival, Napoleon made a desperate effort in 1812 against a country as invincible as Spain.

He was in no hurry to summon the Cortes, partly because the elections to the provincial councils were due in March, and these had to be manipulated so as to ensure the return of a Senate of the right color, partly because the convocation of the Cortes seemed at best a necessary evil.

The modern bee-keeper, therefore, allows just so much drone comb in the hive as will produce a sufficient number of drones to ensure queen-mating, while affording to the bees the satisfaction of dwelling in a home equipped according to natural conditions, and containing all the elements necessary to bee-life.

As a rule large magnification is not demanded from the former, but a larger field of view, whilst the simple microscope should ensure powerful magnification even when the field is small.

To ensure the telecentric transmission, the diaphragm in the back focus of the objective may be replaced by a diaphragm in the front focal plane of the condenser, supposing that uniformly illuminated objects are being dealt with; for in this case all the principal rays in the object-space are transmitted parallel to the axis.

In order to ensure for the eye a central position, there is fixed on the upper end of the tube in place of the eyepiece a disk of pasteboard or metal with an axial hole.

The pipes are placed on the ceilings or sides according to circumstances, but they must be arranged so as to induce a circulation of air throughout the compartment and ensure every part being cooled.

The object of taking boys was obviously to ensure that witnesses to the boundaries should survive as long as possible.

Pissed that his morning hadn't gone as planned, he strode forward and put another bullet in the heads of each of the vamps to ensure they weren't returned to life by their brethren.

One turned all the way around to ensure no one was watching.

At long last, he heard the sound of a car leaving the garage, and he maneuvered the guardsman away from the garage to ensure the immortal didn't take off after her.

If what you say is true, and I am an Original Being, I would've been released to ensure Damian's transition to the White God went over smoothly.

True, but it's always been in the Watchers' best interest to ensure humanity perpetuates.

The brutal reality was that he'd double-bound her to ensure he didn't lose – and not because any part of him was capable of affection.

The blood bond between demons is to ensure one of them doesn't get too hungry and bleed the other dry.

Deidre watched their history and their love grow then become stale, not because of what they felt, but because of the steps Past-Death began taking to ensure she never lost him.

If you want her tumor to slow its growth, you'll ensure she's unhappy, Wynn advised.

It wasn't Death's duty to track a rogue Immortal like Wynn, but he had a need to ensure the right person did.

His plan took Wynn, Andre, the oldest of the Healers he knew and his own magic, and the best he was able to come up with was given a one percent chance by Wynn, whose mind Gabriel stripped to the core to ensure the Immortal didn't deceive him.