securing

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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