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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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... matter what the reason for war, would be with her. And, if France was attacked, England was almost sure to join her. Everything would depend on that. With the great English navy to bottle up the German fleet, to blockade the German coasts, France felt that she was secure. And so the government was resolved that nothing should happen to make possible the loss of England's friendship; nothing that should give England even the shadow of an ...

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... fearing she would open fire on the town. Quickly the "Pawnee" steamed to her moorings. The marines were hurriedly disembarked, and hastened to guard the entrances to the navy-yard. Howitzers were planted so as to rake every street leading to the yard. Thus secure against attack, the work of the night began. Nearly two thousand willing hands were set hard at work, cannon were dismounted and spiked, rifles and muskets dashed to pieces; great quantities of combustibles were piled up in the mammoth buildings, ready to ...

— The Naval History of the United States - Volume 2 (of 2) • Willis J. Abbot

... and cattle, putting up to public auction such Government properties as they had seized at the different railway-stations, and employing hundreds of Kaffirs to tear up the railway-line. Our enemies were perfectly secure in the knowledge that no help could come for months, and the greater number believed it would never come at all, and that the "Roineks" were being cut to pieces in the South. They openly stated there would be no ...

— South African Memories - Social, Warlike & Sporting From Diaries Written At The Time • Lady Sarah Wilson

... such consummation, they pinched and pared, rose early and lay down late, ate dry bread and drank cold water, to secure to Abel the means of learning. Meantime, his tall, ungainly, figure, his taciturn and grave manners, and some grotesque habits of swinging his limbs, and screwing his visage, while reciting his task, made poor Sampson the ridicule of all his school-companions. The same qualities secured him at ...

— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott

... alternatives were possible: trade unionism or legislation. Steward chose the latter as the more hopeful and speedy one. Steward knew that appeals to the humanity of the employers had largely failed; efforts to secure the reform by cooperation had failed; the early trade unions had failed; and there seemed to be no recourse left now but to accomplish the reduction ...

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