assegurar — meaning in English
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English meaning
- assert verb To state something firmly and confidently, as if it were beyond doubt.
- assure verb To tell someone something confidently in order to remove their doubt or worry.
- ensure verb To make certain that something happens or is true.
- indemnify verb To secure against loss or damage; to insure.
- secure adj Protected from danger, harm, or loss.
- vouch verb To personally guarantee that someone or something is trustworthy or genuine, often based on your own experience.
Senses
assegurar is used for these senses in English:
- assert (reflexive) To insist on the legitimacy of one's rights, opinion, etc; not to allow oneself to be dismissed; to ensure that one is taken into consideration; to make oneself respected; to be assertive. See assert oneself.
- assure (transitive) To make sure and secure; ensure.
- assure (transitive, followed by that or of) To give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of (something).
- ensure (intransitive) To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition). [from 18th c.]
- indemnify To secure against loss or damage; to insure.
- secure To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
- vouch To affirm or warrant the correctness or truth of (something); also, to affirm or warrant (the truth of an assertion or statement).
assert — full definition
- verb To state something firmly and confidently, as if it were beyond doubt.
- verb To insist on a right, claim, or opinion, refusing to be ignored or overridden.
assure — full definition
- verb To tell someone something confidently in order to remove their doubt or worry.
- verb To make something certain to happen; to guarantee it.