Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to ensure
Participle: ensured
Gerund: ensuring
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | ensure |
| you | ensure |
| he;she;it | ensures |
| we | ensure |
| you | ensure |
| they | ensure |
Perfect
| I | have ensured |
| you | have ensured |
| he;she;it | has ensured |
| we | have ensured |
| you | have ensured |
| they | have ensured |
Past
| I | ensured |
| you | ensured |
| he;she;it | ensured |
| we | ensured |
| you | ensured |
| they | ensured |
Pluperfect
| I | had ensured |
| you | had ensured |
| he;she;it | had ensured |
| we | had ensured |
| you | had ensured |
| they | had ensured |
Future
| I | will ensure |
| you | will ensure |
| he;she;it | will ensure |
| we | will ensure |
| you | will ensure |
| they | will ensure |
Future Perfect
| I | will have ensured |
| you | will have ensured |
| he;she;it | will have ensured |
| we | will have ensured |
| you | will have ensured |
| they | will have ensured |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | ensure |
| you | ensure |
| he;she;it | ensure |
| we | ensure |
| you | ensure |
| they | ensure |
Perfect
| I | have ensured |
| you | have ensured |
| he;she;it | have ensured |
| we | have ensured |
| you | have ensured |
| they | have ensured |
Imperfect
| I | ensured |
| you | ensured |
| he;she;it | ensured |
| we | ensured |
| you | ensured |
| they | ensured |
Pluperfect
| I | had ensured |
| you | had ensured |
| he;she;it | had ensured |
| we | had ensured |
| you | had ensured |
| they | had ensured |
Conditional
Present
| I | would ensure |
| you | would ensure |
| he;she;it | would ensure |
| we | would ensure |
| you | would ensure |
| they | would ensure |
Perfect
| I | would have ensured |
| you | would have ensured |
| he;she;it | would have ensured |
| we | would have ensured |
| you | would have ensured |
| they | would have ensured |
Imperative
| you | ensure |
| we | Let's ensure |
| you | ensure |
Verbs conjugated like 'ensure'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'ensure'
censure,
endure,
enmure,
ensue,
enure,
insure,
assure,
emmure,
encore,
encur,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English ensuren, from Anglo-Norman enseurer, from Old French seur (“sure”). Doublet of insure.
Sample Sentences
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I use an alarm clock to ensure that I get up on time.
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British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far. [2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:]
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Thenne he cryed hym mercy and sayd Faire knyght for goddes loue slee me not / and I shall ensure the neuer werre ageynst thy lady / but be alwey toward her / Thenne Bors lete hym be [1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xvj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVI:]