OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 12760

sure

/ʃɔː(ɹ)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cierto • seguro
Physically secure and certain, non-failing, reliable.
The bailiff had a sure grip on the prisoner's arm.
This investment is a sure thing.
seguro • tener claro
Certain in one's knowledge or belief.
The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three r…
The very excess of the extravagance, in fact, by suggesting to the reader continually the mere aeriality of the entire speculation, furnishes the surest means of disenchanting him…
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