Ensure

Definition: Ensure

Ensure

Verb

1. Make certain of; "This nest egg will ensure a nice retirement for us"; "Preparation will guarantee success!".

2. Be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something; "He verified that the valves were closed"; "See that the curtains are closed"; "control the quality of the product".

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Date "ensure" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Synonyms: Ensure

Certainty

Render certain; Adjective: insure, ensure, assure; clinch, make sure; determine, decide, set at rest, " make assurance double sure "; know; (believe).

Crosswords: Ensure

If you're looking for female companionship, we can make certain arrangements that will ensure total privacy (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

Would you be willing to plant corroborative evidence on a suspect you knew to be guilty, in order to ensure an indictment (L.A. Confidential; writing credit: Brian Helgeland)

I want you to ensure that all our newspapers give full prominence to this gallant episode -- photographs, everything (The Blue Max; writing credit: Jack Hunter; Ben Barzman)

To ensure one full hour of uninterrupted privacy (The Hospital; writing credit: Paddy Chayefsky)

You don't have to be mad to work here, in fact we ask you to complete a medical questionnaire to ensure that you are not. (The Office; writing credit: Ricky Gervais; Stephen Merchant)

Had some of his semen preserved before the surgery, to ensure his the (Mephisto and Kevin; performing artist: Primus)

He could theoretically build a DNA structure that would ensure (Mephisto and Kevin; performing artist: Primus)

Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future (1989)

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References

• Ensure Co Ltd: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Changes That Heal: How to Understand the Past to Ensure a Healthier Future [ABRIDGED] (reference)

• Funding Your Dreams Generation to Generation : Intergenerational Financial Planning to Ensure Your Family's Health, Wealth, and Personal Values (reference)

• How to Run a Family Business: How to Own, Operate and Ensure the Continuation of Your Family Business (reference)

• Practice and Learn-Kindergarten: What Every Kindergartner Needs to Know to Ensure Success (reference)

• Save Your Child from the Fat Epidemic: 7 Steps Every Parent Can Take to Ensure Healthy, Fit Children for Life (reference)

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Tech. Sgt. Dan Stevens, 411th Flight Test Squadron, at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., uses a non-contact infrared thermometer while curing the coating on an F-22 Raptor. To ensure Edwards AFB continues flight-testing large programs such as the F-22, the.

Master Sergeant Ivan Alva, chief of accounting, together with Yoko Vanoss review accounts receivable records from other agencies, such as the Defense Commissary Agency, Department of the Navy, and the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, to ensure utility.

Building their own freezing facilities inside their lab, ARS scientists experimented with every step in the process, from selection of the variety grown to harvesting, handling, blanching, freezing, packaging, storing, and transporting products to market. What these scientists learned helped immeasurably to ensure the survival and growth of the U.S. frozen food industry. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

To ensure continuing worldwide availability of this valuable food staple, potato plant breeders must unite desirable processing and fresh-market characteristics with late blight resistance. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

ROUNDUP ...at the Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Station in southeastern Montana. At this station, one of the largest in the world of its kind, researchers help to ensure a plentiful supply of meat while protecting the rangeland environment. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Jack Dykinga..

The health worker skillfully administers a local anaesthetic which will ensure ... cataract operation is painless. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by N. Willard..

A moment of discomfort - but it will ensure that he will never suffer: the wasting disease of tuberculosis. / WHO photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Tank armor Production. Brake presses flatten each piece of tank armor plate after flame-cutting and before machining. Every plane must be perfectly flat to ensure a tight fit in the tank. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

Conversion. Auto parts to artillery shells. A drilling operation on the noses of artillery shells is performed with speed and efficiency in a converted Midwest auto plant. Continuous conveyers feed the shells to the operators to ensure steady production. Credit: Library of Congress.

We must ensure that literature and art fit well into the revolutionary machine as a component, that they operate as powerful weapons for uniting and educating the people and for attacking and destroying the enemy, and that they help the people fight the e. Credit: Library of Congress.

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It shall take all steps which it thinks proper to ensure the freedom, fairness, and secrecy of the vote. (reference)

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Health

Supplements of vitamins A, D, E, and K are given to ensure good nutrition. (references)

Care should be taken to ensure that important medical problems are not overlooked. (references)

Contrary to common belief, the "natural" origin of a product does not ensure safety. (references)

Business

It will ensure that business plays its part in controlling carbon emissions. (references)

The basic premise of the model is to ensure open competition with no discrimination. (references)

This scheme helps to ensure that existing technical aids are more effectively utilized. (references)

Children

Suriname

The Government allocates only limited resources to ensure safeguards for the human rights and welfare of children. (references)

Switzerland

Advocates for persons with disabilities have called for new measures to ensure greater protection for their rights. (references)

Botswana

The Adoption Act also continued to be reviewed to ensure that adopted children are provided for and not exploited as labor. (references)

Civil Liberties

Lebanon

The group must ensure that the number of its adherents is sufficient to maintain its continuity. (references)

Uzbekistan

As a result, journalists who wish to ensure that their work is published practice self-censorship. (references)

Egypt

Government censors ensure that foreign films made in the country portray Egypt in a favorable light. (references)

Discrimination

Singapore

Mindful of the country's history of intercommunal tension, the Government takes affirmative measures to ensure racial, ethnic, religious, and cultural nondiscrimination. (references)

Economic History

Peru

This is to ensure conflicts of interest do not occur. (references)

Uzbekistan

This switch will operate the network and ensure information protection. (references)

Human Rights

Syria

Like the SSSC, the ESC does not ensure due process for defendants. (references)

Philippines

The court system is unable to ensure expeditious trials for detained persons. (references)

Oman

Judges occasionally intercede to ensure that security officials allow such visits. (references)

Minorities

Niger

Upon notifying authorities, the missionaries were told that, while it was within their rights to be there, the local police could not ensure their safety. (references)

Fiji

The post-1987 coup Government initiated a number of constitutional and other measures to ensure ethnic Fijian control of the executive and legislative branches. (references)

Fiji

The stated purpose of two military coups in 1987 was to ensure the political supremacy of indigenous Fijians and to protect their traditional way of life and communal control of land. (references)

Political Economy

Hungary

In practice the authorities do not always ensure due process. (references)

Latvia

The inefficient judiciary did not always ensure the fair administration of justice. (references)

Burkina Faso

Courts are subject to executive influence, and authorities do not ensure fair trials. (references)

Political Rights

Kyrgyz Republic

Campaign restrictions and biased media failed to ensure free and fair conditions for candidates. (references)

Taiwan

Early in the year, it worked to ensure fair Farmer's Association elections, investigating 330 suspected vote-buying cases. (references)

Cambodia

Some political parties and election observers claim that the authorities did not do enough to ensure that all voters who wished to vote could register. (references)

Trade

Barbados

Sometimes, a bond must be posted to ensure the re-export of the goods. (references)

Argentina

This body's mission is to ensure the transparency of business transactions. (references)

Luxembourg

In other words, ISO 9000 is designed to ensure a consistent level of product quality. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

All visitors should ensure Ivoirian officials at port of entry stamp their passport. (references)

Colombia

If normal yellow city taxis must be utilized, ensure the hotel/restaurant calls a "radio taxi". (references)

Slovak Rep

Business people are encouraged to follow up with correspondence to ensure contact with the intended recipients. (references)

Women

Italy

A number of government offices work to ensure women's rights. (references)

Benin

Certain provisions of the bill aim to ensure equal inheritance and property rights for women. (references)

Poland

The main task of the office is to ensure that victims of violence are treated with respect by law enforcement and the judicial system. (references)

Worker Rights

Singapore

Some embassies find it difficult to ensure that victims' rights are addressed. (references)

New Zealand

Inspection and legal penalties ensure respect for provisions against forced labor. (references)

Niger

The law requires employers to ensure minimum sanitary working conditions for children. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "ensure": ensure harmony ♦ ensure to the benefit of/to. Additional references.

Albanian

siguroj (acquire, assure, avouch, bear, certify, come by, cover, find, fit out, furnish, guy, haven, house, indemnify, insure, keep, lock up, obtain, procure, provide, purvey, reassure, satisfy, secure, supply, take care of, underwrite, vouch, warrant, win), garantoj (assure, avouch, back, certify, Gage, give a guarantee, guarantee, safeguard against, vouch, warrant). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كفل (ass, backside, bottom, butt, buttock, buttocks, guarantee, guaranty, insure, pledge, posterior, prat, rump, secure, sponsor, vouch), ‏ضمن (assure, avouch, embody, enclose, farm out, guarantee, inclose, include, inside, insure, secure, sponsor, vouch, within), ‏صان (arm, conserve, cover, defend, embalm, fence, fend, maintain, preserve, protect, repair, safeguard, screen, steady, tend, vindicate). (various references)

Bulgarian 

осигурявам (assure, cover, indemnify, insure, provide, secure, stipulate), предпазвам (indemnify, mask, prevent, protect, safeguard, shield). (various references)

Chinese 

確保 (guarantee), 保证 (Assurance, Assure, Assuring, guarantee, guaranteed, Guaranteeing, Guarantees, Guarantied, guaranty, Guarantying, Sureties, surety, Warrant). (various references)

Czech

zajistit (assure, detain, make certain, make sure, pot, provide, safeguard, secure, vindicate). (various references)

Danish

efterproeve,om forseglingerne er ubeskadiget (to ensure that the seals are unbroken), for at fjerne ethvert spor af kollodium fra replikaerne (to ensure the replica is quite free from collodion), retningslinjer og beslutninger,der er nødvendige for at udføre de opgaver,der er pålagt ESCB (guidelines and decisions necessary to ensure the performance of the tasks entrusted to the ESCB), maengdegaranti (measures adopted to ensure supplies), lokomotivernes automatiske registrering af signaler for koer og stop, samt eninddeling i blokafsnit paa hele straekningen sikrer en fejlfri trafikafvikling (ensure reliable operating, indications of the loco service operating state brakes, together with a fixed block system), konstatere kandidaturernes regelrethed (to ensure that nominations are in order), herigennem at sikre landbrugbefolkningen en rimelig levestandard (thus to ensure a fair standard of living for the agricultural community), foranstaltninger til identificering (mean of identification, measures to ensure identification), anmode om bemyndigelse til tvangsmaessig gennemfoerelse af denne kontrol (to apply for an order to ensure that the inspection be carried out compulsorily), for at sikre uhindret vandafstroemning skal den til enhver tid vaerende foreloebige raajordsoverflade i afgravning udfoeres med tilstraekkeligt fald (the intermediate levels of the cuttings should provide sufficient falls to ensure unobstructed drainage), sikre alle forbrugere i det faelles marked,som befinder sig under vilkaar,der kan sammenlignes,lige adgang til produktionskilderne (to ensure that all comparably placed consumers in the common market have equal access to the sources of production), de soeger at gennemfoere en nedsaettelse,der svarer til... (they shall endeavour to ensure that the reduction shall amount to...), bilægge tvister (ensure that disputes are resolved), beskyttelse af de kraenkede interesser skal sikres ved passende retsvaern (there shall be an appropriate legal procedure to ensure the protection of interests that have been prejudiced), at sikre den foreskrevne afvikling af kontingenterne (to ensure that the abolition of quotas is carried out progressively), at holde gulvet og vaeggene i brydningsrummet fugtige for at undgaa at stoev, som har haeftet sig paa sidesten, hvirvles op i luften, ved omladning eller videre udvinding af kul (to ensure that the dust deposited ( or adhering to the rock ) does not get whirled up into the air, to moisten the floor and the walk of the cutter track to be stowed or caved), for at sikre virkeliggoerelsen af de i denne Traktat opstillede maal (to ensure that the objectives set out in this Treaty are attained), sikre,at varer ikke bliver ombyttet med andre varer (to ensure that goods are not substituted by other goods), ved brydning skal der drages omsorg for, at der op til brydningsfronten opnaas god stabilitet, f.eks. ved at taget understoettes af en raekke meget taet staaende stoettebjaelker (care must be taken to ensure good stability at the breaking line e.g. by setting very close-standing props, in practising caving), værne om lov og ret (ensure that the law is observed), understoetningsfladen skal vaere vinkelret paa og centreret i forhold til indtrykslegemets akse;det skal paases,at den ligger fast imod proevemaskinens bord (the surface of the support should be centred on the axis of the indentor;care should be taken to ensure that it rests firmly in the table of the testing machine), understoetninger skal afstives for at undgaa vaeltning (the supports have to be strutted to ensure that they are not blown over), traeffe alle noedvendige foranstaltninger for at faa disse forhandlinger paabegyndt (to take all appropriate steps to ensure that such negotiations shall be undertaken), rimeligt honorarniveau (to ensure that fees charged are fair), tage de skridt,der maatte vaere noedvendige for at sikre,at gebyrer for officielle rejsedokumenter og visa er acceptable (to take steps to ensure that the fees for official travel documents and visas are acceptable), saasnart der gives signal til at slutte kontakt fra afgangsstationerne, indskydes et automatisk tidsforsinkelseskredsloeb, som sikrer tidsintervaller af stoerrelsesordenen 15 sekunder (clearance to engage the contacters for the thrust points having been given, of the order of l5 seconds, the time-lag will be applied to ensure an interval of time), sikre importoererne lige behandling (to ensure that importers are treated alike), sikre forhandlingernes gode forløb (to ensure that proceedings are properly conducted), sikre et effektivt tilsyn og forenkle den administrative kontrol mest muligt (to ensure effective supervision and to simplify administration to the greatest possible extent), sikre en rimelig genoprettelse af skaden og tilstaa en passende erstatning (to ensure equitable redress for the harm and pay appropriate damages), sikre den nødvendige grad af integration i ESCB (to ensure the needed degree of integration in the ESCB), sikre at tovene kan bjærges (to ensure that cables can be retrieved), ved ind-og udloebet af valsespalten findes der foeringer til sikring af,at valsegodset passerer i den korrekte position (there are guides at the entry and delivery sides of the mill rolls to ensure that the product enters and leaves in the correct position). (various references)

Dutch

een bevelschrift vragen,ten einde met dwangmiddelen de uitvoering van de controle te verzekeren (to apply for an order to ensure that the inspection be carried out compulsorily), de geleidelijke opheffing van de contingenten verzekeren (to ensure that the abolition of quotas is carried out progressively), herstel van de kabelloop (to ensure that cables can be retrieved), geheimhouding in acht nemen (ensure the secrecy, keep in confidence, keep secret), door het stampen van het schip heeft het boorgereedschap de neiging zich van de bodem los te maken;om het gewicht op de beitel constant te houden,wordt in het boorgereedschap een boorschaar aangebracht die tot doel heeft deze bewegingen op te vangen (under the influence of vessel heave the drill string tends to lose contact with the bottom of the hole;to ensure that the weight on the bit remains constant), de maatregelen nemen die nodig kunnen zijn om te bereiken dat de te betalen rechten voor officiële reisdocumenten en visa aanvaardbaar zijn (to take steps to ensure that the fees for official travel documents and visas are acceptable), de lijsten onderzoeken (to ensure that nominations are in order), aan allen die in het gemeenschappelijk marktgebied als verbruikers optreden en in vergelijkbare omstandigheden verkeren,op voet van gelijkheid de toegang tot de produktiebronnen waarborgen (to ensure that all comparably placed consumers in the common market have equal access to the sources of production), de geleidingen dienen om het walsgoed op de juiste plaats in of uit de wals te doen gaan (there are guides at the entry and delivery sides of the mill rolls to ensure that the product enters and leaves in the correct position), het erkennen van de rij- en reminstructies door de lokomotief enerzijds en een vast blokstelsel anderzijds zorgen voor een storingsvrij verloop van het verkeer (ensure reliable operating, indications of the loco service operating state brakes, together with a fixed block system), de eerbiediging van het recht verzekeren (ensure that the law is observed), de bescherming der geschade belangen moet door een passende rechtsprocedure worden gewaarborgd (there shall be an appropriate legal procedure to ensure the protection of interests that have been prejudiced), de afdoening van de geschillen bespoedigen (ensure that disputes are resolved), alle initiatieven nemen dienstig om deze onderhandelingen te doen beginnen (to take all appropriate steps to ensure that such negotiations shall be undertaken), aldus de landbouwbevolking een redelijke levensstandaard verzekeren (thus to ensure a fair standard of living for the agricultural community), de importeurs een gelijke behandeling verzekeren (to ensure that importers are treated alike), ondersteuningen afschoren om omschuiven te voorkomen (the supports have to be strutted to ensure that they are not blown over), zorg dragen voor het goede verloop der beraadslagingen (to ensure that proceedings are properly conducted), zij streven ernaar dat de verlaging...bereikt (they shall endeavour to ensure that the reduction shall amount to...), zich vergewissen of de verzegeling ongeschonden is (to ensure that the seals are unbroken), voorkomen dat de goederen worden vervangen (to ensure that goods are not substituted by other goods), ter bereiking van de doelstellingen van dit Verdrag (to ensure that the objectives set out in this Treaty are attained), teneinde een ongehinderde afvloeiing van het water te verzekeren dient de tijdelijke bodem van de verschillende uitgravingen met voldoende verkanting te worden uitgevoerd (the intermediate levels of the cuttings should provide sufficient falls to ensure unobstructed drainage), het bevochtigen van vloer en wanden van de openstaande werkplaats van de vul- of breukpijler beoogt te voorkomen dat de neergeslagen of aan de wanden hechtende stofdeeltjes wederom in de luchtstroom worden opgenomen (to ensure that the dust deposited ( or adhering to the rock ) does not get whirled up into the air, to moisten the floor and the walk of the cutter track to be stowed or caved), op een billijke wijze het nadeel herstellen en een rechtvaardige schadevergoeding toekennen (to ensure equitable redress for the harm and pay appropriate damages), het doeltreffend toezicht verzekeren en de administratieve controle zoveel mogelijk vereenvoudigen (to ensure effective supervision and to simplify administration to the greatest possible extent), om er zeker van te zijn dat de replica geen collodiumresten bevat (to ensure the replica is quite free from collodion), leveringsgarantie (measures adopted to ensure supplies), identificatiemaatregelen (mean of identification, measures to ensure identification), honoraria verantwoord houden (to ensure that fees charged are fair), het voldingen van de zaken bespoedigen (ensure that cases are prepared for hearing), het steunvlak moet ten opzichte van de as van het indruklichaam gecentreerd zijn;er dient op te worden toegezien dat het aambeeld goed draagt op het plateau van het toestel (the surface of the support should be centred on the axis of the indentor;care should be taken to ensure that it rests firmly in the table of the testing machine), zorgen voor de vereiste integratie in het ESCB (to ensure the needed degree of integration in the ESCB), richtsnoeren en besluiten die nodig zijn voor het vervullen van de aan het ESCB opgedragen taken (guidelines and decisions necessary to ensure the performance of the tasks entrusted to the ESCB). (various references)

Farsi 

متقاعدکردن (Convince), مطملن ساختن , مراقبت کردن در, حتمی کردن , تضمین کردن (Bond, Certify, Warrant). (various references)

Finnish

turvata (guard, protect, safeguard, secure, trust), taata (give a guarantee, guarantee, warrant). (various references)

French

protéger, garantir, assurer. (various references)

German

sicherstellen (assure, back up, guarantee, keep safe, recover, secure, take possession of, to assure, to secure), sichern (assure, back up, backup, belay, cover, guarantee, guard, protect, safeguard, save, secure, to assure, to backup). (various references)

Greek 

εξασφαλίζω (enlist, obtain, reserve, secure). (various references)

Hebrew 

לו�"א (ascertain, authenticate, certify, check up on, confirm, make certain, make sure, verify), לאבטח (insure, protect, safeguard, secure), ביטח. (various references)

Hungarian

biztosít (cover, grant, guard, insure, patrol, secure, support, to anchor, to assure, to batten, to ensure, to guarantee, to insure, to make good, to strengthen, to warrant). (various references)

Indonesian

meyakinkan (cogent, convince, persuasive), menjamin (certify, undertaken, vouch). (various references)

Italian

garantire (assure, avouch, guarantee, guaranty, insure, secure, sponsor, undertake, underwrite, vouch, vouch for, vouchsafe, warrant). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

確保　 (guarantee, maintain), 確保 (guarantee, insure, maintain, secure). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かくほ (guarantee, insure, maintain, secure). (various references)

Korean 

지키십시�". (various references)

Manx

shickyraghey (affirm, affirmation, assure, certify, certifying, convince, make sure, ratification, ratify, ratifying, secure, verify, vouch). (various references)

Norwegian

sikre, garantere (guarantee). (various references)

Pig Latin

ensureay.(various references)

Portuguese

segurar (assure, attach, bolster, clamp, cling, clip, grapple, guy, hang onto, hitch, hold, hold back, indemnify, insure, pillar, pin, secure, seize, sustain, take, take up, underset, unrein, uphold), garantir (assure, avouch, gage, guarantee, indemnify, insure, make a promise, promise, safeguard, state, underwrite, unrein, vouch, warrant), assegurar (affirm, asseverate, assure, enlist, insure, preserve, secure, shore up, state, vouch). (various references)

Romanian

garanta (avouch, grant, guarantee, indemnify, insure, secure, undertake, underwrite, vouch, warrant), asigura (affix, assure, attach, cover, determine, fasten, find, fix, guarantee, guard, indemnify, insure, make fast, procure, promise, provide, provide for, reassure, secure, underwrite). (various references)

Russian 

гарантировать (assure, assures, assuring, guaranteed, secure, undertake, underwrite, underwrote, warrant). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

obezbediti (assure, insure, provide, put through, safeguard, safeguard against, secure, supply). (various references)

Spanish

hacer seguro, garantir (avouch, guarantee, guaranty, underwrite, vouch), asegurar (adjust, affirm, anchor, assert, assure, beat up, belay, fasten, fix, guarantee, insure, latch, make certain, profess, reeve, secure, tread in, underwrite, warrant). (various references)

Swedish

säkerställa. (various references)

Thai

ทำให้แน่ใจ. (various references)

Turkish

sigorta etmek (insure, underwrite), sağlamak (accommodate, accommodate smb. with, arm, assure, carry, cater, cater for, come in, derive, enlist, extract, fend for, find, fix, fix up, furnish, get out of, implement, keep, lay in, lay on, maintain, make, obtain, procure, provide, provide with, provision, purvey, secure, suck, supply, yield), sağlama almak (assure, batten, entrench, insure, intrench, make sure, play it safe, secure, skid, underwrite), garantiye almak (guarantee, hedge, insure, make certain, make certain of, nail down, sew up). (various references)

Ukrainian

страхувати (assure, cover, guarantee, guaranty, insure, secure), ручатися (answer, avouch, certify, impawn, mortgage, pawn, pledge, undertake), забезпечувати (assure, document, feed, fit out, fix out, furnish, nourish, provide). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "ensure": ensured, ensurer, ensurers, ensures. (additional references)

Words ending with "ensure": censure, licensure, relicensure. (additional references)

Words containing "ensure": censured, censurer, censurers, censures, licensures, relicensures, uncensured. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ensure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ansorge, encur, encure, ennur, enpure, enshure, ensite, ensor, ensorcel, ensu, ensume, ensuren, ensurf, ensusre, eonsure, esnure, Essere, Etsuro, lensure, Mensur, Nensorb, Nespray, sensure, Sensuron. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: enures.

-1 letter: ensue, enure, ernes, nurse, reuse, runes, sneer.

-2 letters: erne, erns, rees, rues, rune, runs, ruse, seen, seer, sene, sere, suer, sure, urns, user.

-3 letters: ens, ere, ern, ers, nee, nus, ree, res, rue, run, see, sen, ser, sue, sun, uns, urn, use.

-4 letters: en, er, es, ne, nu, re, un, us.

+1 letter: censure, endures, ensured, ensurer, ensures, neuters, retunes, tenures, tureens, unfrees, unreels.

+2 letters: anureses, censured, censurer, censures, cerumens, coenures, dentures, denuders, enquires, ensurers, enureses, enuresis, esurient, generous, gerenuks, guernsey, insecure, lucernes, muenster, nervules, nervures, neurines, neurones, neuroses, penuries, pureness, reinfuse, reinsure, resupine, retinues, reunites, revenues, rudeness, sauterne, sederunt, seigneur, sinecure, sneerful, squireen, subgenre, sullener, sundered, sunderer, supermen, sureness, trueness, undersea, underset, uneasier, unerased, universe, unnerves, unreeves, unrested, unseared, unserved, unsphere, unversed, uredines, ventures.