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# assured

«assured» in Mova's school dictionary: **sure and confident in yourself: «She gave an assured…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (assured; more assured); verb (past form of assure: assure, assures, assured, assuring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Assured means sure and confident in yourself: «She gave an assured speech.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assured/#m1)

2) Assured means certain to happen: «Our win is assured.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assured/#m2)

3) (verb) If you assured someone, you told them firmly that something is true so they would not worry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assured/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories it shows a character's confidence or that a result is certain. In formal language, «rest assured» means «don't worry, it is certain». Phrases: «rest assured», «assured of», «self-assured».

### examples

- The coach assured us that the game would go ahead. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assured/#x1)
- Rest assured, your dog is safe with us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assured/#x2)
- She sounded calm and assured on stage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assured/#x3)
- With ten points ahead, their place in the final is assured. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assured/#x4)
- The nurse assured me it would not hurt much. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assured/#x5)
- He is a very self-assured boy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assured/#x6)
- Gangazara assured them of safety, and stopped them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assured/#x7)

### note

Compare assure (to tell someone so they stop worrying), ensure (to make sure something happens) and insure (to protect with insurance). Assure takes a person: «I assured her.»

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «assured» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assured/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.