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Secure

//sɪˈkjʊə(ɹ)// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Free from attack or danger; protected.

    "The vast majority of American Jews not only greatly dislike President Trump but also believe he has made them less safe: according to a May 2019 poll, nearly three-quarters of Jewish voters believe American Jews are less secure under Trump than they were before, 71 percent disapprove of Trump’s overall job performance, and nearly 60 percent believe that he bears at least some responsibility for the synagogue shootings carried out by white nationalists in Pittsburgh and Poway."

  2. 2
    Free from the danger of theft; safe.
  3. 3
    Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
  4. 4
    Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.

    "But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes."

  5. 5
    Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
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  1. 6
    Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
  2. 7
    Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of.

    "secure of a welcome"

  3. 8
    Overconfident; incautious; careless. obsolete

    "They were secure where they ought to have been wary, and timorous where they might well have been secure."

  4. 9
    Certain to be achieved or gained; assured.

    "Just when victory seemed secure, they let it slip from their grasp."

Adjective
  1. 1
    free from fear or doubt; easy in mind wordnet
  2. 2
    free from danger or risk wordnet
  3. 3
    not likely to fail or give way wordnet
  4. 4
    financially safe wordnet
  5. 5
    immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with wordnet
Verb
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    make certain of wordnet
  3. 3
    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"

  4. 4
    furnish with battens wordnet
  5. 5
    To make fast; 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"

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  1. 6
    cause to be firmly attached wordnet
  2. 7
    To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.

    "to secure an estate"

  3. 8
    fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug wordnet
  4. 9
    To plight or pledge. obsolete, transitive
  5. 10
    get by special effort wordnet
  6. 11
    assure payment of wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin sēcūrus (“of persons, free from care, quiet, easy; in a bad sense, careless, reckless; of things, tranquil, also free from danger, safe, secure”), from sē- (“without”) + cūra (“care”); see cure. Doublet of sure and the now obsolete or dialectal sicker (“certain, safe”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin sēcūrus (“of persons, free from care, quiet, easy; in a bad sense, careless, reckless; of things, tranquil, also free from danger, safe, secure”), from sē- (“without”) + cūra (“care”); see cure. Doublet of sure and the now obsolete or dialectal sicker (“certain, safe”).

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