Word Finder - secure

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To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.

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To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against or from, or formerly with of.

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to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage

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To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.

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to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship

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To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.

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to secure an estate

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To plight or pledge.

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Free from attack or danger; protected.

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Free from the danger of theft; safe.

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Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.

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Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.

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Firm and not likely to fail; stable.

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Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.

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Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of.

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secure of a welcome

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Overconfident; incautious; careless.

The line is as secure as I can make it.

It makes me feel secure to know you're there and I can depend on you.

She felt secure knowing that he was in charge.

He tried to hold the flashlight, but he needed both hands to secure the line.

It meant a good deal to him to secure a home like this.

She felt safe and secure.

I was alone, back in New York, on a totally secure line.

Her daughter is secure in the sealed room beneath the barn so it is only the two of us in my cabin.

The man who will call you next will do so on a secure net.

Of course, she might be skittish if she didn't know how secure the structure was.

Dean did the same, hoping its eighteen inch girth was sufficient to secure the two damn fools who were testing it as their sole mooring against the natural forces of nature.

They were a bit wiggley, but secure enough if only the harness held together.

Before secure phones and dropped numbers and scrambled voices.

She snuggled close in his arms, where everything was secure.

I don't know why, but it made me feel both secure and frightened at the same time.

The law student now had a secure job with the firm and any future episodes of embezzlement had been discouraged.

For a moment she surrendered to his warm lips and secure embrace, clinging to him as her heart stepped up pace.

The three of us were outside and secure in my new van without further incident.

The possibility of escape was nil so secure was our twelve foot square cell.

It was seized in November 1897 by the German fleet, nominally to secure reparation for the murder of two German missionaries in the province of Shantung.

The harbour is good and secure, and is much frequented by vessels delayed in the Elbe by unfavourbale weather.

In order to secure popular support for the Hochberg heir, Charles in 1818 granted to the grand-duchy, under article xiii.

In the war which Vespasian carried on against the Jews Herod sent him 2000 men, by which it appears that, though a Jew in religion, he was yet entirely devoted to the Romans, whose assistance indeed he required to secure the peace of his own kingdom.

He had set off to secure an ally against Louis, and he came back from his expedition with a crown on his head and a new nation at his back, united in its detestation of popery and of France.

In no case did these methods and efforts secure a long-term solution to poverty.

I didn't think you had anything wanted, now that I have Deidre safe and secure.

Brady watched him, wishing they were closer to one of their secure facilities so he could make a call to Tim.

The tree lowered a branch to him, and he wrapped his arms around it.  It was warm and writhing, and one small branch wrapped around him to keep him secure as it shifted him upwards.  Toby broke through the treetops and gasped.

Its three main objects, the peace of Christendom, the crusade and the reform of the church, could be secured only by general agreement among the powers, and Leo or the council failed to secure such agreement.

Salama, from which the word is derived appears in salaam, " peace be with you," the greeting of the East, and in Moslem, and means to be "free" - or "secure."

The king set out for Rome to secure his coronation, but Venice refused to let him pass through .her territories; and at Trant, on the 4th of February 1508, he took the important step of assuming the title of Roman Emperor Elect, to which he soon received the assent of pope Julius II.

He attempted in vain to secure the election of his grandson Charles.

The Scots under Leslie followed him, occupied Doon Hill commanding the town, and seized the passes between Dunbar and Berwick which Cromwell had omitted to secure.

To the first we owe the secure foundation.

But Adhemar had died in August 1098 (whence, in large part, the confusion and bickerings which followed in the end of 1098 and the beginning of 1099) nor were there any churchmen left of sufficient dignity or weight to secure the triumph of the ecclesiastical cause.

The assizes may speak of patriarch and king as conjoint seigneurs in Jerusalem; but as a matter of fact the king could secure the nomination of his own patriarch, and after Dagobert the patriarchs are, with the temporary exception of Stephen in 1128, the confidants and supporters of the kings.

He immediately recalled his forced confession, and besought all Christian men " to pray for him, so that his tears might secure the pity of the Almighty."

When he felt his position secure, he determined to settle the religious controversy once for all.

In the struggle against the Jansenists he used all the influence he had with the clergy to secure the passage of the apostolic constitution of the 31st of March 16 J3 (Relation de ce qui s'est fait depuis 1653 Bans les assemblies des iveques au sujet des cinq propositions, 1657); but in the rebellion raised by Retz, archbishop of Paris, against the king, he took the part of the king against the pope.

In 1275 Burnell was elected bishop of Bath and Wells, and three years later Edward repeated the attempt which he had made in 1270 to secure the archbishopric of Canterbury for his favourite.

The attack on Persia was delayed by the assassination of Philip in 336, and it needed some fighting before the young Alexander had made his position secure in Macedonia and Greece.

The object here is to secure the succession in the event of the supreme king's dying whilst his heir is an infant.

During this controversy Dionysius became convinced that the victory of mystical theology over "Jewish" chiliasm would never be secure so long as the book of Revelation passed for an apostolic writing and kept its place among the homologoumena of the canon.

In 70 a formidable rising in Gaul, headed by Claudius Civilis, was suppressed and the German frontier made secure; the Jewish War was brought to a close by Titus's capture of Jerusalem, and in the following year, after the joint triumph of Vespasian and Titus, memorable as the first occasion on which a father and his son were thus associated together, the temple of Janus was closed, and the Roman world had rest for the remaining nine years of Vespasian's reign.

To the last Vespasian was a plain, blunt soldier, with decided strength of character and ability, and with a steady purpose to establish good order and secure the prosperity and welfare of his subjects.

The act of 1670 gave to informers a pecuniary interest (they were to have one-third of the fine imposed) in hunting down Nonconformists who broke the law, and this and other statutes were unduly strained to secure convictions.

At the end of 1909 there were in connexion with the " National Council of Adult-School Associations " 1818 " schools " for men with laboured to secure the religious teaching of slaves.

He used his influence with the emperor of Russia, as also with the emperors of China and Japan and with the shah of Persia, to secure the free practice of their religion for Roman Catholics within their respective dominions.

The purpose of this was doubtless to resist by a strong internal consolidation the shock of the invasions, to secure public order, to enforce industrious habits, and to guarantee the financial resources of the state.

Naturally resolute and fearless, he seems to have under-estimated his danger, the more so since his power had never seemed more secure.