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Secure

verb

(past & past part. secured; pres. part. securing)

1.

Get by special effort. Synonym: procure.

2.

Cause to be firmly attached. Synonyms: fasten, fix. "She fixed her gaze on the man"

3.

Assure payment of.

4.

Make certain of. Synonyms: assure, ensure, guarantee, insure. "Preparation will guarantee success!"

5.

Fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug. Synonyms: plug, stop up. "Stop up the leak"

6.

Furnish with battens. Synonyms: batten, batten down.

adjective

1.

Free from fear or doubt; easy in mind. Synonyms: unafraid, untroubled.

2.

Free from danger or risk. "His fortune was secure" , "Made a secure place for himself in his field"

3.

Not likely to fail or give way. "A secure foundation" , "A secure hold on her wrist"

4.

Immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with. Synonyms: impregnable, inviolable, strong, unassailable, unattackable. "Fortifications that made the frontier inviolable" , "A secure telephone connection"

5.

Financially sound. Synonyms: dependable, good, safe. "A secure investment"

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"Secure" Quotes from Famous Books

... the whole republic have rest in your most happy times, since the pillage of peace under the color of legal processes has been exposed. Let plottings about testaments cease, and benevolences extorted by violence end. Let secure possession of their own goods return to all, that they may rejoice in possessing without fear what they have acquired without fraud. Let every single person's liberty be now at length restored to each one under the yoke of the holy Empire. For there is this difference between ...

— A Source Book for Ancient Church History • Joseph Cullen Ayer, Jr., Ph.D.

... crashed through the rushes to where Garland had already cleared a space and was digging a hole in the mud. When it was finished, the cans—the newspaper bundle on top—were lowered into it, and earth and roots replaced. No particular attempt was made at concealment; the cache was as secure against intrusion as if it were on the crest of the Sierra, and within the week they would be back to empty it. The box was filled with stones ...

— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner

... traffic they gained would be taken from the surface lines, and if he built them he would be merely doubling his expenses to halve his profits. From time to time he had contemplated the possibility of their being built by other men—providing they could secure a franchise, which previous to the late election had not seemed probable—and in this connection he had once said to Addison: "Let them sink their money, and about the time the population is sufficient to support the lines they will have been driven into the hands of receivers. ...

— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser

... placing the greatest part of his troops under arms all night on that side which the soldier mentioned as the part where Holguin was to attack. The intentions of Holguin were diametrically opposite to this story which he had put in the mouth of the soldier, meaning only to gain time for a secure retreat; so that immediately after dispatching the soldier, he decamped in the middle of the night, marching with all possible celerity to get his army into a place of safety, while Don Diego uselessly kept his army under arms ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. IV. • Robert Kerr

... they are never diminished in number. For that reason, the natives set closely-grated divisions and enclosures in the rivers and creeks of their settlements, where they bathe. There they enter the water to bathe, secure from those monsters, which they fear so greatly that they venerate and adore them, as if they were beings superior to themselves. All their oaths and execrations, and those which are of any weight ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XVI, 1609 • H.E. Blair

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