What is the synonym of the word assure

  • encourage
  • persuade
  • reassure
  • satisfy
  • bag
  • comfort
  • hearten
  • inspire
  • sell
  • soothe
  • bet on
  • sell on
  • affirm
  • confirm
  • guarantee
  • vow
  • attest
  • aver
  • certify
  • pledge
  • swear
  • brace up
  • buck up
  • give one’s word
  • vouch for
  • confirm
  • ensure
  • guarantee
  • insure
  • secure
  • cinch
  • clinch
  • complete
  • ice
  • lock
  • seal
  • set
  • have a lock on
  • lock on
  • lock up
  • make sure
  • nail down
  • put on ice

On this page you’ll find 86 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to assure, such as: encourage, persuade, reassure, satisfy, bag, and comfort.

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  • halt

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How to use assure in a sentence

While hotels have been inconsistent in following their own cleaning standards due to reduced staffing, they are better at assuring travelers that they, in fact, are following those new policies, Harteveldt said.

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WORDS RELATED TO ASSURE

  • accredit
  • approve
  • ascertain
  • assure
  • attest
  • authenticate
  • authorize
  • aver
  • avow
  • commission
  • confirm
  • corroborate
  • endorse
  • guarantee
  • license
  • notify
  • okay
  • profess
  • reassure
  • rubber-stamp
  • sanction
  • show
  • state
  • swear
  • testify
  • validate
  • verify
  • vouch
  • witness
  • assure
  • cap
  • conclude
  • confirm
  • decide
  • determine
  • seal
  • seize
  • set
  • settle
  • sew up
  • verify
  • assure
  • buttress
  • clinch
  • establish
  • fix
  • fortify
  • invigorate
  • make firm
  • settle
  • strengthen
  • affirms
  • approves
  • attests
  • authenticates
  • backs
  • bears out
  • blesses
  • buys
  • certifies
  • checks
  • checks out
  • circumstantiates
  • corroborates
  • debunks
  • double-checks
  • endorses
  • establishes
  • explains
  • gives green light
  • gives high sign
  • gives stamp of approval
  • gives the go-ahead
  • gives the nod
  • justifies
  • laps up
  • makes good
  • makes sure
  • o.k.’s
  • rubber-stamps
  • sanctions
  • settles
  • signs
  • signs off on
  • size up
  • subscribes
  • substantiates
  • supports
  • thumbs up
  • underpins
  • upholds
  • verifies
  • vouches
  • warrants
  • witnesses
  • argue into
  • assure
  • brainwash
  • bring around
  • bring home to
  • bring to reason
  • change
  • demonstrate
  • draw
  • effect
  • establish
  • get
  • hook
  • induce
  • make a believer
  • overcome
  • persuade
  • prevail upon
  • prompt
  • prove
  • put across
  • refute
  • satisfy
  • sell
  • sell one on
  • sway
  • talk into
  • turn
  • twist one’s arm
  • win over
  • argues into
  • assures
  • brainwashes
  • brings around
  • brings home to
  • brings to reason
  • changes
  • demonstrates
  • draws
  • effects
  • establishes
  • gets
  • hooks
  • induces
  • makes a believer
  • overcomes
  • persuades
  • prevails upon
  • prompts
  • proves
  • puts across
  • refutes
  • satisfies
  • sells
  • sells one on
  • sways
  • talks into
  • turns
  • twists one’s arm
  • wins over

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1

as in to reassure

to ease the grief or distress of

a minister choosing just the right words to assure the grieving parents of the fallen soldier


2

as in to ensure

to make sure, certain, or safe

security measures that assured our safety


Synonym Chooser

How is the word assure distinct from other similar verbs?

Some common synonyms of assure are ensure, insure, and secure. While all these words mean «to make a thing or person sure,» assure distinctively implies the removal of doubt and suspense from a person’s mind.

I assure you that no harm will be done

How does the word ensure relate to other synonyms for assure?

Ensure, insure, and assure are interchangeable in many contexts where they indicate the making certain or inevitable of an outcome, but ensure may imply a virtual guarantee.

the government has ensured the safety of the refugees

Where would insure be a reasonable alternative to assure?

The synonyms insure and assure are sometimes interchangeable, but insure sometimes stresses the taking of necessary measures beforehand.

careful planning should insure the success of the party

In what contexts can secure take the place of assure?

In some situations, the words secure and assure are roughly equivalent. However, secure implies action taken to guard against attack or loss.

sent reinforcements to secure their position

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affirm, agree, animate, approve, ascertain, en.synonym.one, attest, authorise, authorize, aver, betroth, brighten, certify, check, cheer, comfort, confirm, control, convince, covenant, defend, encourage, engage, ensure, enthuse, espouse, en.synonym.one, establish, fortify, guarantee, guaranty, guard, hearted, hearten, induce, inspire, insure, inveigle, invigorate, justify, make firm, persuade, pledge, promise, prove, reassure, reinforce, revitalise, revitalize, safeguard, sanction, satisfy, en.synonym.one, secure, see, see to it, spirit, state, support, swear, tell, testify, vouch, vouch for, vow, warrant, witness.

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  1. assure

    Confirm (Latin con, together, and firmus, firm) is to add firmness or give stability to. Both confirm and corroborate presuppose something already existing to which the confirmation or corroboration is added. Testimony is corroborated by concurrent testimony or by circumstances; confirmed by established facts. That which is thoroughly proved is said to be established; so is that which is official and has adequate power behind it; as, the established government; the established church. The continents are fixed. A treaty is ratified; an appointment confirmed. An act is sanctioned by any person or authority that passes upon it approvingly. A statement is substantiated; a report confirmed; a controversy settled; the decision of a lower court sustained by a higher. Just government should be upheld. The beneficent results of Christianity confirm our faith in it as a divine revelation.

    Synonyms:
    confirm, corroborate, establish, fix, prove, ratify, sanction, settle, strengthen, substantiate, sustain, uphold

    Antonyms:
    abrogate, annul, cancel, destroy, overthrow, shake, shatter, unsettle, upset, weaken

    Preposition:
    Confirm a statement by testimony; confirm a person in a belief.

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  1. assure

    Synonyms:
    advise, advertise, promise, inform, rally, console, encourage, countenance, aid, support, convince, uphold, certify

    Antonyms:
    misinform, misadvise, mislead, deceive, discomfit, disconceit, deter, discourage, warn, dissuade, unsettle, intimidate

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  1. guarantee, ensure, insure, assure, secureverb

    make certain of

    «This nest egg will ensure a nice retirement for us»; «Preparation will guarantee success!»

    Synonyms:
    ensure, reassure, ascertain, batten, control, plug, stop up, warrant, batten down, guarantee, underwrite, fix, cover, promise, fasten, check, see to it, undertake, procure, insure, tell, vouch, secure, see

  2. assure, tellverb

    inform positively and with certainty and confidence

    «I tell you that man is a crook!»

    Synonyms:
    tell apart, ensure, reassure, state, say, severalize, recount, control, narrate, promise, enjoin, check, guarantee, secern, differentiate, severalise, separate, recite, ascertain, secernate, see to it, distinguish, insure, tell, order, evidence, secure, see

  3. assureverb

    assure somebody of the truth of something with the intention of giving the listener confidence

    «I assured him that traveling to Cambodia was safe»

    Synonyms:
    see, ascertain, see to it, promise, check, guarantee, ensure, insure, control, tell, secure, reassure

  4. see, check, insure, see to it, ensure, control, ascertain, assureverb

    be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something

    «He verified that the valves were closed»; «See that the curtains are closed»; «control the quality of the product»

    Synonyms:
    guarantee, ensure, project, interpret, verify, look, experience, tick off, visualise, fit, gibe, image, hold, run across, moderate, learn, checker, condition, mark off, run into, discover, escort, stop, examine, pick up, visit, reckon, consider, tally, come across, get a line, hold in, suss out, get wind, check off, check over, take care, match, check up on, control, look into, ascertain, mark, command, insure, attend, promise, date, realize, go over, train, check, hold back, underwrite, meet, go out, witness, manipulate, fancy, catch, construe, find out, see, discipline, tell, check into, regard, visualize, picture, find, go through, take in, correspond, curb, secure, view, keep in line, arrest, hear, cover, contain, operate, get word, envision, determine, figure, encounter, retard, crack, turn back, reassure, chequer, watch, see to it, break, understand, check out, master, go steady, tick, realise, jibe, agree, delay

  5. reassure, assureverb

    cause to feel sure; give reassurance to

    «The airline tried to reassure the customers that the planes were safe»

    Synonyms:
    see, ascertain, see to it, promise, check, guarantee, ensure, insure, control, tell, secure, reassure

  6. promise, assureverb

    make a promise or commitment

    Synonyms:
    predict, reassure, ascertain, control, promise, forebode, guarantee, call, prognosticate, anticipate, check, see to it, foretell, insure, tell, ensure, secure, see

Matched Categories

    • Affirm
    • Calm
    • Declare
    • Persuade
    • Verify

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  1. assureverb

    Synonyms:
    make certain or sure, free from doubt or uncertainty

  2. assureverb

    Synonyms:
    embolden, encourage, enhearten, hearten, make confident

  3. assureverb

    Synonyms:
    declare to (confidently and earnestly), vouch to, avow to, protest to, warrant

  4. assureverb

    Synonyms:
    (Law.) insure, agree to indemnify for loss, secure against loss

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  1. List of paraphrases for «assure»:

    reassure, ensure, guarantee, ensuring, confirm, insure, secure, emphasize, provide, convince, affirm

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  1. Jim Mattis:

    Senator, I assure you that nickname was given to me by the press and some of you have experienced similar occasions with the press where they perhaps they didn’t get it quite right.

  2. Justin Gover:

    These patients deserve and will soon have access to a cannabinoid medicine that has been thoroughly studied in clinical trials, manufactured to assure quality and consistency, and available by prescription under a physician’s care.

  3. Chrissy Houlahan:

    We have an opportunity-rich environment right now, to use a military term, to make sure that we take advantage of this really special time, honestly, where the majorities and minorities are so small and so slim that it really requires that we work together, we can pretty much assure that our far edges of both parties will not necessarily be interested in working collaboratively.

  4. Richard Land:

    It was the first thing that popped into my mind, because I could think of nothing which could more assure evangelicals that they were going to have a seat at the table in the Publicly Trump administration than making Vice President Mike Pence Vice President Mike Pence vice president.

  5. Alain Lecavelier des Etangs:

    We can not assure that the observed comets are likely to deliver material like water to planets orbiting Beta Pictoris, but our observations show that collisions are very common and therefore suggests that temperate planets can be enriched in material trapped in frozen ices captured by the comets when( the comets) are far from the star and later collide with the planets.


Translations for assure

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  • запэ́ўніць, запэ́ўнівацьBelarusian
  • уверявам, удостоверявам, вдъхвам увереност, убеждавамBulgarian
  • sichern, versichernGerman
  • asegurarSpanish
  • veenma, kinnitamaEstonian
  • اطمینان دادنPersian
  • varmistaa, vakuuttaaFinnish
  • assurer, rassurerFrench
  • shickyreeManx
  • biztosítHungarian
  • לְהַבטִיחַHebrew
  • amen amen dicoLatin
  • sikre, forsikreNorwegian
  • afzekeren, geruststellen, beveiligen, verzekerenDutch
  • sikre, forsikreNorwegian Nynorsk
  • forsikrerNorwegian
  • zapewnić, zapewniaćPolish
  • assegurarPortuguese
  • asiguraRomanian
  • заверять, заверить, обнадёживать, уверять, убедить, обеспечить, убеждать, обеспечивать, уверить, обнадёжитьRussian
  • உறுதிTamil
  • temin etmek, güvence altına almak, sağlamakTurkish
  • запевня́ти, запе́внитиUkrainian

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