assure
verbecourant dans les dialogues
- États-Unis//əˈʃʊɹ//
- États-Unis//əˈʃɝ//
- //əˈʃɔː(ɹ)//
- //əˈʃʊə(ɹ)//
To make sure and secure; ensure.
verbe
- 1
To make sure and secure; ensure.
- 2
To give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of (something).
I assure you that the program will work smoothly when we demonstrate it to the client.
He assured of his commitment to her happiness.
- 3
obsolèteTo guarantee, promise (to do something).
That as a law for euer should endure; / Which to obserue in word of knights they did assure.
- 4
To reassure.
Étymologie
From Old French asseurer (Modern French assurer), from Latin ad- + securus (“secure”). Cognate with Spanish asegurar. Doublet of assecure.
Formes
- passé
- assured
- participe passé
- assured
- participe présent
- assuring
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- assures