Meanings
verbassure (third-person singular simple present assures, present participle assuring, simple past and past participle assured)
present singular third person assures · participle present assuring · participle past assured · past assured
- transitiveTo give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of (something).
He assured of his commitment to her happiness.
1 more example
I assure you that the program will work smoothly when we demonstrate it to the client.
- transitiveTo reassure.
Synonyms & antonyms
verbbe careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
Broader
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinad-
- Old Frenchasseurer
- Englishassure
From Old French asseurer (Modern French assurer), from Latin ad- + securus (“secure”). Cognate with Spanish asegurar. Doublet of assecure.
More words from Old French, Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic أَكَّدَ
- أَكَّدَ (ʔakkada)to give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
Bulgarian уверявам, убеждавам
- уверявам (uverjavam)to make sure and secure
- убеждавам (ubeždavam)to give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
- удостоверявам (udostoverjavam)to give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
- вдъхвам увереност (vdăhvam uverenost)to reassure
Catalan assegurar, assegurar
- assegurarto make sure and secure
- assegurarto give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
Danish sikre, forsikre
- sikreto make sure and secure
- forsikreto give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
Dutch verzekeren, afzekeren
- verzekerento make sure and secure
- afzekerento make sure and secure
- beveiligento make sure and secure
- verzekerento give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
- verzekerento reassure
- geruststellento reassure
Esperanto certigi
- certigito make sure and secure
Estonian kinnitama, veenma
- kinnitamato make sure and secure
- veenmato give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
Finnish varmistaa, vakuuttaa
- varmistaato make sure and secure
- vakuuttaato make sure and secure
- vakuuttaato give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
- varmistaato reassure
French assurer, rassurer
- assurerto give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
- rassurerto reassure
German sichern, versichern
- sichernto make sure and secure
- versichernto give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
Greek διαβεβαιώνω
- διαβεβαιώνω (diavevaióno)to give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
Hungarian biztosít, biztosít
- biztosítto give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
- biztosítto reassure
Italian assicurare, assicurare
- assicurareto make sure and secure
- assicurareto give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
- garantireto give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
Norwegian Bokmål sikre, forsikre
- sikreto make sure and secure
- forsikreto give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
Polish zabezpieczyć, asekurować
- zabezpieczyćto make sure and secure
- asekurowaćto make sure and secure
- pilnowaćto make sure and secure
- ubezpieczaćto make sure and secure
- zapewniaćto give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
- zapewnićto give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
- upewniaćto give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
- upewnićto give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
- upewnićto reassure
- upewniaćto reassure
Portuguese assegurar, assegurar
- assegurarto make sure and secure
- assegurarto give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
- garantirto give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
Romanian asigura, asigura
- asigurato make sure and secure
- asigurato give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
Russian обеспе́чивать, обеспе́чить
- обеспе́чивать (obespéčivatʹ)to make sure and secure
- обеспе́чить (obespéčitʹ)to make sure and secure
- заверя́ть (zaverjátʹ)to give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
- заве́рить (zavéritʹ)to give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
- уверя́ть (uverjátʹ)to give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
- уве́рить (uvéritʹ)to give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
- убежда́ть (ubeždátʹ)to give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
- убеди́ть (ubedítʹ)to give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
- обнадёживать (obnadjóživatʹ)to reassure
- обнадёжить (obnadjóžitʹ)to reassure
Slovak zabezpečiť, zabezpečovať
- zabezpečiťto make sure and secure
- zabezpečovaťto make sure and secure
- ubezpečiťto give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
- ubezpečovaťto give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
- ubezpečiťto reassure
- ubezpečovaťto reassure
Spanish asegurar, afianzar
- asegurarto make sure and secure
- afianzarto make sure and secure
- segurarto make sure and secure
- asegurarto give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
- avalarto give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
- afiarto give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
- cerciorarto give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
- asegurarto reassure
Swedish försäkra
- försäkrato give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
Thai ให้คำมั่น
- ให้คำมั่นto give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
Turkish temin etmek, güvence altına almak
- temin etmekto make sure and secure
- güvence altına almakto make sure and secure
Ukrainian забезпечувати, гарантува́ти
- забезпечувати (zabezpečuvaty)to make sure and secure
- гарантува́ти (harantuváty)to make sure and secure
- запевня́ти (zapevnjáty)to give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
- запе́внити (zapévnyty)to give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
- гарантувати (harantuvaty)to give someone confidence in the trustworthiness of something
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with assure
yoursuretourmaturesecureensurepoorpureMoorebrochurecureentrepreneurinsureunsureobscurecouturelureendureDarfurmanureinsecuremoormuiramour
All rhymes →Sounds the same
ashore (with the pour–poor merger)
Anagrams
Cite this entry
APA
assure. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/assure
MLA
“assure.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/assure. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “assure,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/assure.
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