ensured
- 1Simple past and past participle of ensure.
The backup generator ensured the hospital kept power throughout the storm.
Careful planning ensured that the project finished on schedule.
Note
One spelling does two jobs here: the finite past (careful planning ensured success) and the participle after have or be (success had been ensured). The usual object is the outcome being secured, a noun or a that-clause. An older pattern took the person instead (to ensure someone of something, meaning to pledge or assure them), but that use is obsolete. Today assured does that work: the bank assured us of payment.
ensured is a form of ensure
ensure, verb: To make certain that something (usually a future event or condition) will come about. Full entry
- Spelling
- ensure → ensured: add -d
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