| ASSURE | • assure v. (Transitive) To make sure and secure; ensure. • assure v. (Transitive, followed by that or of) To give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of (something). • assure v. (Obsolete) To guarantee, promise (to do something). |
| CESURE | • CESURE n. (Spenser) a break, an interruption. |
| ENSURE | • ensure v. (Transitive) To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure. • ensure v. (Intransitive) To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition). • ENSURE v. to make sure. |
| INSURE | • insure v. (Transitive) To provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract)… • insure v. (Intransitive) To deal in such contracts; subscribe to a policy of insurance. • insure v. (Chiefly US, transitive, dated) Alternative spelling of ensure; to make sure or certain of; guarantee. |
| RASURE | • rasure n. (Now rare, law) Scraping the surface of a parchment etc. in order to erase something from the document;… • rasure n. (Now rare) Obliteration, destruction. • rasure n. (Obsolete) Shaving the head, or an instance of this; a tonsure. |
| SURELY | • surely adv. Without fail. • surely adv. Certainly, undoubtedly. • surely adv. With confidence. |
| SUREST | • surest adj. Superlative form of sure: most sure. • SURE adj. certain. |
| SURETY | • surety n. Certainty. • surety n. That which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security. • surety n. (Law) A promise to pay a sum of money in the event that another person fails to fulfill an obligation. |
| UNSURE | • unsure adj. Uncertain. • unsure adj. Unstable or precarious. • UNSURE adj. not sure. |
| USURED | • usured v. Simple past tense and past participle of usure. • USURE v. (obsolete) to practise usuring. |
| USURER | • usurer n. A person who loans money to others and charges interest, particularly at an illegal, exorbitant, or unfair rate. • USURER n. one who lives by usury. |
| USURES | • usures v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of usure. • USURE v. (obsolete) to practise usuring. |