Word Meanings - ENSURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To make sure. See Insure. 2. To betroth. Sir T. More.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ENSURE)

• Effectuate
• Produce
• ensure
• secure
• stabilitate
• compass
• complete
• establish
• Secure Fasten
• guard
• protect
• assure
• close
• enclose
• detain
• arrest

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ENSURE)

• Release
• dismiss
• liberate
• free
• discharge
• expedite
• Open
• initiate
• conduct
• protract
• Expand
• disband
• unfold
• amplify
• display
• discard
• fail
• bungle
• botch
• misconceive
• mismanage
• misconstrue
• Loosen
• betray
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open

Related words: (words related to ENSURE)

• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• ASSURER
  1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• GUARDANT
  A guardian. Shak.
• GUARDIAN
  One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• GUARDIANESS
  A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
• ENSURER
  See INSURER
• EXPAND
  To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy. Dryden.
• GUARDIANLESS
  Without a guardian. Marston.
• PROTECT
  To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak. Syn. -- To guard; shield; preserve. See Defend.
• GUARDER
  One who guards.
• BOTCH
  1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. 2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 3. Work done in a bungling
• UNFOLDER
  One who, or that which, unfolds.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• CLOSEHANDED
  Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• UNASSURED
  1. Not assured; not bold or confident. 2. Not to be trusted. Spenser. 3. Not insured against loss; as, unassured goods.
• COUNTERGUARD
  A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.