Ensures

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To make certain that something will happen or be the case
2. To guarantee or secure an outcome or condition
3. To take action that confirms a particular event or result will occur

Etymology: "Ensures" is the third-person singular form of "ensure", so its history is the history of the verb. "Ensure" came into Middle English as "ensuren", borrowed from Anglo-Norman "enseurer", which was built on Old French "seur", meaning "sure". The verb thus carries the idea of making something sure: to put a thing into a secure state so that an outcome is certain. The same Old French "seur" also gave English "sure" and "secure" in other forms, and "ensure" has a close relative in "insure". The two words are doublets, meaning they grew from the same source but reached English by different routes and took on separate senses. "Ensure" kept the general sense of making certain, while "insure" came to refer specifically to guaranteeing against financial loss.

Synonyms: guarantees, secures, confirms, affirms, assures

Antonyms: doubts, negates, undermines, contradicts, disproves