insure

Verb

Meaning

To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.

Specifically, to secure against a loss by a contingent event, on certain stipulated conditions, or at a given rate or premium; to give or to take an insurance on or for; as, a merchant insures his ship or its cargo, or both, against the dangers of the sea; goods and buildings are insured against fire or water; persons are insured against sickness, accident, or death; and sometimes hazardous debts are insured.

To underwrite; to make insurance; as, a company insures at three per cent.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

control cover ensure secure check guarantee assure ascertain underwrite see to it guard see back guaranty cinch
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Antonyms

keep hold hobble block reject hide
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Hypernyms

protect guarantee warrant verify

Hyponyms

control make doom cinch cover card

Related terms

ensure assure insurant

Phrases with the word

self-insure

Derivatives

insured insuring

Anagrams

rusine ursine nursie

Examples

Ideally a just constitution would be a just procedure arranged to insure a just outcome. John Rawls

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate. George William Russell

Satanists are encouraged to indulge in the seven deadly sins, as they need hurt no one; they were only invented by the Christian Church to insure guilt on the part of its followers. Anton LaVey

Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world. Vannevar Bush

I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion. Kurt Hahn

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. Albert Camus

Close letter words and terms

insurancer insurant insuraunce insured insured person insuree