ensures

VERB

guarantee; make secure

Synonyms

STRONGEST

assure establish insure protect provide safeguard secure

STRONG

arrange certify cinch clinch confirm effect guard okay warrant

WEAK

lock on lock up make certain make safe make sure nail down put on ice set out

Antonyms

STRONGEST

endanger harm hurt injure

STRONG

contradict deny forget ignore invalidate neglect reject repudiate veto

Example Sentences

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A version of this review appears in print on April 11, 2014, on page C6 of the with the headline: Writing a Playbook That Ensures Glory.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2014

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From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2010

Bloomfield, thy happy omen'd name Ensures continuance to thy fame; Both sense and truth this verdict give, While fields shall bloom, thy name shall live!

From The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas by White, Henry Kirk

This sweet retirement—nay, 'tis more than sweet— Ensures my health e'en in September's heat.

From The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry by Conington, John

Bloomfield, thy happy-omened name Ensures continuance to thy fame; Both sense and truth this verdict give.

From The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings by Lemon, Mark