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say it: si-KYUUR
secure is a verb and adjective meaning "get by special effort". 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.