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say it: si-KYUUR
secure is a verb and adjective meaning "get by special effort". It is pronounced /sɪˈkjʊɹ/ — si-KYUUR. It carries 11 recorded senses.
“fasten the lock onto the door”
“she fixed her gaze on the man”
free from fear or doubt; easy in mind
“he was secure that nothing will be held against him”
immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with
“an impregnable fortress”
“fortifications that made the frontier inviolable”
“a secure telephone connection”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for secure come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.