assure
/əˈʃɔː(ɹ)//əˈʃʊɹ/
assure verb: to make sure and secure; ensure.
Verb
assure (third-person singular simple present assures, present participle assuring, simple past and past participle assured)
- To make sure and secure; ensure.
- To give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of (something).
- I assure you that the program will work smoothly when we demonstrate it to the client.
- He assured of his commitment to her happiness.
- To guarantee, promise (to do something).
- That as a law for euer should endure; / Which to obserue in word of knights they did assure.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- To reassure.
assure meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
assure in Tamil
- உறுதிகூறு, உறுதிப்படுத்து, நம்பிக்கையளி, காப்புறுதியளி
assure in Marathi
- खात्री देणे
assure in Urdu
- یقین دلانا
assure in Bengali
- নিশ্চিত করা, নিরাপদে রাখা, নিশ্চিতরূপে বলা, আশ্বাস দেওয়া, বিমা করা
More languagesFewer languages
- assure in Malayalam
- ഉറപ്പാക്കുക uṟappākkuka, ഉറപ്പുനൽകുക uṟappunalkuka
- assure in Kannada
- ಮಾತುಕೊಡು
- assure in Gujarati
- ખાતરી આપવી, ખાતરી આપવા
- assure in Sanskrit
- आज्ञा ājñā
- assure in Arabic
- أَكَّدَ ʔakkada
- assure in Thai
- ให้คำมั่น
Examples of assure in a sentence
- Officials in the Firefly administration assure the Sylvanians they don't want war either.
- An excavation unit need not be rectangular, if precise measurements are made to assure good provenience.
- The urges are hard to overcome, but, I assure you, you're safe with me.
Forms of assure
| third-person singular present | assures |
|---|---|
| present participle | assuring |
| past participle | assured |
| past | assured |
Origin of assure
From Old French asseurer (Modern French assurer), from Latin ad- + securus (“secure”). Cognate with Spanish asegurar. Doublet of assecure.
Words formed from assure
Words that rhyme with assure
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- muir
- obscure
- amour
- boor
- immure
- impure
- lure
- recure
- immature
- inure
- manure
- moor
- cour
- Darfur
- demure
- du jour
- fure
- insecure
- liqueur
- mure
- reassure
- roture
- Ruhr
- unsure
- adure
- allure
- bonheur du jour
- bonjour
- brochure
- bure
- chaussure
- combure
- couture
- de jour
- dhuhr
- dure
- guipure
- Kapur
- L'Anse Amour
- Namur
- parkour
- parure
- plat du jour
- poseur
- purpure
- smoor
- soup du jour
- spoor
Questions about assure
- What does assure mean?
- Assure means to make sure and secure; ensure.
- What is assure in Tamil?
- Assure in Tamil is உறுதிகூறு, உறுதிப்படுத்து, நம்பிக்கையளி. See Assure meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is assure?
- Assure is a verb.
- How do you pronounce assure?
- Assure is pronounced /əˈʃɔː(ɹ)/.
- What is the past tense of assure?
- The past tense of assure is assured.
Words near assure in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: assure (page history and authors); assure (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); assure (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); assure (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); assure (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); assure (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); assure (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); आज्ञा (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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