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Definition of Make sure
1. Verb. Make a point of doing something; act purposefully and intentionally.
Definition of Make sure
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To verify; to recheck; to use extra care or caution. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Make Sure
Literary usage of Make sure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... Descend and cross the river's bed Where rises yonder cliff so gray." '
Do thou,' said Bertram, ' lead the way.' Then muttered, ' It is best make sure; ..."
2. The Prairie: A Tale by James Fenimore Cooper (1898)
"... for many long and weary minutes, in order to make sure that he was no longer
watched. Though his body lay so motionless, his active mind was not idle. ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1878)
"... so far as in him Нее, to make sure that your individual efforts shall be
properly directed, and that as little energy as possible shall be wasted by any ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1881)
"As the treatment of diseases can make sure advances only on sound acquisitions
in physiological pathology, we may draw from the advance in hepatic ..."
5. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"... most familiar to his intended audience, make sure of fulfilling the second
condition; and it is equally obvious that, in order to effect this purpose, ..."
6. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"The advantages of transplanting are, first, you make sure of a crop in spite of
fly : and, second, you have six weeks, or two months longer, to prepare your ..."
7. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1906)
"If this portion were removed it would be extremely difficult to make sure whether
the berg had turned over or not. To argue that such icebergs as those ..."
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