From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
*** Verb
[make < ,,made> sure]
1. To ensure [en] something specific happens, is done etc., or [en] something happening. [from 16th c.]
2. * [en]
3. To make oneself certain ( [en] something, or [en] something is the case); to verify , to ascertain . [from 17th c.]
4. [en] To feel certain [en] something; to be convinced. [from 18th c.]
5. * [text=“The gun!” said he. <br> “I have thought of that,” said I, for I MADE SURE he was thinking of a bombardment of the fort. “They could never get the gun ashore, and if they did, they could never haul it through the woods.”]
6. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1872 | author=w:George Eliot | title=Middlemarch | section=Book III, chapter 24
|passage=‘I put my name to a bill for Fred; it was for a hundred and sixty
pounds. He MADE SURE he could meet it himself.’}}
1. * [en]
2. * [en]
3. [en] To betroth .
4. * [year=1622]
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1631 | month=(year of first performance) | author= [Thomas Dekker (writer)] | title=The Wonder of a Kingdom | location=act V
|passage=Women are borne, but to make fooles of men.<br>She that's MADE SURE
to him, she loves not well,<br>Her banes are ask'd here, but she wedds in
hell;<br>Parents that match their children gainst their will,<br>Teach them
not how to live, but how to kill.}}
**** Synonyms
- [en] , * [en]
- [en]
- [ensure] [en]
**** Translations
[to verify]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek:
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Manx: [gv]
- Polish: [pl] [someone else] , [pl] [someone else] , [pl] [oneself] , [pl] [oneself]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
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*** See also
- [en]