Verb

Infinitive to insure

Third person singular insures

Simple past insured

Past participle insured

Present participle insuring

to insure (third-person singular simple present insures, present participle insuring, simple past and past participle insured)

1. (transitive) To provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event.

   I'm not insured against burglary.

2. (intransitive) To deal in such contracts; subscribe to a policy of insurance
3. (chiefly US) Alternative spelling of ensure: (transitive) To make sure or certain of; guarantee.
   • 1787, Preamble to the United States Constitution,

     We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

4. (perhaps nonstandard) Alternative form of assure: (transitive) To give confidence in the trustworthiness of.

   He insured me that there would be no further delays.