Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“secured” is a form of

secure

/səˈkjʊɹ/ adjective, verb

Forms securer securest secures securing secured securedst secureth secuer

  1. adjective Free from attack or danger; protected.
  2. adjective Free from the danger of theft; safe.
  3. adjective Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
  4. adjective Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
  5. adjective Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
  6. adjective Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
  7. adjective Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of. “secure of a welcome”
  8. adjective (obsolete) Overconfident; incautious; careless.
  9. verb To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
  10. verb To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against or from, or formerly with of.
  11. verb To fix in place; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
  12. verb To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly. “to secure an estate”
  13. verb (transitive, obsolete) To plight or pledge.

Synonyms

procure fasten fix guarantee ensure insure assure plug stop up batten batten down unafraid untroubled impregnable inviolable strong unassailable unattackable dependable good safe

Antonyms

insecure

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sēcūrus (“of persons, free from care, quiet, easy; in a bad sense, careless, reckless; of things, tranquil, also free from danger, safe, secure”), from sē- (“without”) + cūra (“care”); see cure. Doublet of sure and the now obsolete or dialectal sicker (“certain, safe”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.
  2. adjective Overconfident; incautious; careless; --in a bad sense. Macaulay.
  3. verb To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
  4. verb To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; to insure; --frequently with against or from, rarely with of; as, to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage.

Etymology [L. securus; pref. se- without + cura care. See Cure care, and cf. Sure, a.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “secure”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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