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Make sure

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Verb
  1. 1
    To ensure that something specific happens, is done etc., or of something happening.

    "I'm going to make sure that I get to the interview on time."

  2. 2
    make a point of doing something; act purposefully and intentionally wordnet
  3. 3
    To make oneself certain (of something, or that something is the case); to verify, to ascertain.

    "When you leave, make sure you have locked the door behind you."

  4. 4
    To feel certain of something; to be convinced. archaic

    "“The gun!” said he. “I have thought of that,” said I, for I made sure he was thinking of a bombardment of the fort. “They could never get the gun ashore, and if they did, they could never haul it through the woods.”"

  5. 5
    To betroth. obsolete

    "[…] then his marriage shall be ſolemniz'd, / For wrote you not that I haue made him ſure / Vnto our Coſin, the Earle of Gloſters heire."

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