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ensures

ensures is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ensure.

Meaning of ensure

Verb

ensure (third-person singular simple present ensures, present participle ensuring, simple past and past participle ensured)

  1. (intransitive) To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
    • I use an alarm clock to ensure that I get up on time.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.
    • 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 be1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xvj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVI

Questions about ensures

What is ensures the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Ensures is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ensure.

Words near ensures in the dictionary

  1. ensurances
  2. ensure
  3. ensured
  4. ensurer
  5. ensurers
  6. ensures
  7. ensurest
  8. ensureth
  9. ensuring
  10. enswathe
  11. enswathed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ensures (page history and authors); ensure (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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