Assure vs Endanger - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between assure and endanger

is that assure is while endanger is to put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.

is insured.

is insuree.

(assur)

To make sure and secure.

To give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of (something).

I assure you that the program will work smoothly when we demonstrate it to the client.

He assured of his commitment to her happiness.

(obsolete) To guarantee, promise (to do something).

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.ii:

That as a law for euer should endure; / Which to obserue in word of knights they did assure .

To reassure.

* endaunger (obsolete) * indanger

(en verb)

To put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.

* 1593, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona

I hold him but a fool that will endanger / His body [in a duel] for a girl that loves him not

* Burke

All the other difficulties of his reign only exercised without endangering him.

* 1877, Louisa May Alcott, Under the Lilacs

If you endanger other people's life and liberty in your pursuit of happiness, I shall have to confiscate your arms, boys.

(obsolete) To incur the hazard of; to risk; to run the risk of.

* Francis Bacon

He that turneth the humours back endangereth malign ulcers.

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