Dictionary entry
Assure
Pronunciation: /əˈʃʊə/
Pronunciation
/əˈʃʊə/
Myanmar Meaning
(v) အခိုင်အမာ ပြောသည်။ (Brit) (အသက်)အာမခံထားသည်။
Definition
assure /ǝ'ʃƱǝ(r); Brit also -ʃↄ:(r)/ v ၁။ (က) ~ sb (of sth) အခိုင္အမာ ေျပာသည္။ We were assured that everything possible was being done. ❍ They'll be perfectly safe with us, I (can) assure you. ❍ ‘He'll come back,’ Susan assured her airily. ❍ They assured him of their willingness to work hard. (ခ) ~ oneself (of sth) ေသခ်ာသည္ဟု (ကိုယ့္ကိုယ္ကိုယ္) စိတ္ခ်ေစသည္။ He assured himself of the child's safety. ❍ She assured herself that the letter was still in the drawer. Compare REASSURE ၂။ (often passive) ေသခ်ာသည္။ Victory was now assured. ❍ Her achievement has assured her a place in the history books. ၃။ ( Brit ) (အသက္)အာမခံထားသည္။ What is the sum assured? ❏ assured adj ၁။ (also self-assured ) ယံုၾကည္စိတ္ခ် ေသာ။ He spoke in a calm, assured voice. ၂။ ေသခ်ာေပါက္ (ျဖစ္လာမည့္)။ an assured income/ tenancy. ❏ assuredly /ǝ'ʃƱǝrǝdli; Brit also -ʃↄ:r-/ adv ( dated ) ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာ။ ခိုင္ခိုင္မာမာ။
Examples
- There’s not much more I can say to assure you.
- [assure someone of something] : She assured me of her support.
- [assure someone (that)] : The president assured me that he would sign the bill as amended.
- We all worked hard to assure the mayor’s re-election.