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secures

secures is the third-person singular simple present indicative of secure.

Meaning of secure

Verb

secure (third-person singular simple present secures, present participle securing, simple past and past participle secured)

  1. To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
    • I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, / Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
  2. To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against or from, or formerly with of.
    • to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage
  3. To fix in place; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
    • to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship
  4. To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.
    • to secure an estate
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To plight or pledge.

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Phrases with secures

Questions about secures

What is secures the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Secures is the third-person singular simple present indicative of secure.

Words near secures in the dictionary

  1. securement
  2. securements
  3. secureness
  4. securer
  5. securers
  6. secures
  7. secures arms
  8. securest
  9. secureth
  10. securicula
  11. securiculae

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