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insure

/ɪnˈʃɔː(ɹ)//ɪnˈʃʊɚ/

insure verb: to provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event. Also the alternative spelling of ensure.

Verb

insure (third-person singular simple present insures, present participle insuring, simple past and past participle insured)

  1. (transitive) To provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event.
    • I'm not insured against burglary.
  2. (intransitive) To deal in such contracts; subscribe to a policy of insurance

Also used as

insure is also the alternative spelling of ensure.

insure meaning in Bengali, Odia and Persian

insure in Bengali

বীমা করা

insure in Odia

ବୀମା କରିବା

insure in Persian

to provide for compensation if some risk occurs
بیمه بودن bime budan
to deal in such contracts
بیمه کردن bime kardan

Examples of insure in a sentence

  • “They were insuring against the insurrection of cargo – I think that completely sums it up.
  • Usually one female is placed into a hapa with two males to insure that fertilization occurs.
  • It is flamboyant yet unmemorable, like a screen saver, its refusal to freeze insuring instant amnesia.

All 40 example sentences with insure

Forms of insure

third-person singular presentinsures
present participleinsuring
past participleinsured
pastinsured

Past tense of insure: insured

Origin of insure

First attested in c. 1440, as a variant of Middle English ensuren (from Anglo-Norman enseurer, itself from Old French en- + seür (“sure”), probably influenced by Old French asseürer (“to assure”)); took on its particular sense of "make safe against loss by payment of premiums" in 1635, replacing assure. Doublet of ensure.

Words formed from insure

Words that rhyme with insure

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Questions about insure

What does insure mean?
Insure means to provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event.
What is insure in Bengali?
Insure in Bengali is বীমা করা. See Insure meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is insure?
Insure is a verb.
How do you pronounce insure?
Insure is pronounced /ɪnˈʃɔː(ɹ)/.
What is the past tense of insure?
The past tense of insure is insured.

Words near insure in the dictionary

  1. insurancers
  2. insurances
  3. insurant
  4. insurants
  5. insuraunce
  6. insure
  7. insured
  8. insureds
  9. insuree
  10. insurees
  11. insurer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: insure (page history and authors); insure (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); insure (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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