1. • verb - get by special effort
   • verb - cause to be firmly attached
   • verb - assure payment of
   • verb - make certain of
   • verb - fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug
   • verb - furnish with battens
   • adj - free from fear or doubt
   • adj - free from danger or risk
   • adj - not likely to fail or give way
   • adj - immune to attack
   • adj - financially sound
2. • Free from danger or attack: a secure fortress.
   • Free from risk of loss; safe: Her jewels were secure in the vault.
   • Free from the risk of being intercepted or listened to by unauthorized persons: Only one telephone line in the embassy was secure.
   • Free from fear, anxiety, or doubt.
   • Not likely to fail or give way; stable: a secure stepladder.
   • Firmly fastened: a secure lock.
   • Reliable; dependable: secure investments.
   • Assured; certain: With three goals in the first period they had a secure victory, but somehow they lost.
   • Careless or overconfident.
   • To guard from danger or risk of loss: The troops secured the area before the civilians were allowed to return.
   • To make firm or tight; fasten.
   • To make certain; ensure: Despite making several good jokes, he could not secure the goodwill of the audience.
   • To guarantee payment of (a loan, for example).
   • To guarantee payment to (a creditor).
   • To get possession of; acquire: secured a job.
   • To capture or confine: They secured the suspect in the squad car.
   • To bring about; effect: secured release of the hostages.
   • To protect or ensure the privacy or secrecy of (a telephone line, for example).
3. • adv - free from danger [adj -CURER, -CUREST] : SECURELY
   • v - to make firm or tight

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