Insure is a term used to describe the process of protecting something from loss or damage. To insure something means to provide financial protection against potential risks. Ensuring, assuring, cinching, clinching, warranting, guarding, underwriting, pledging, safeguarding, endorsing, covering, and guaranteeing are all terms related to insuring something. Ensuring and assuring mean to make certain that something will happen, while cinching and clinching mean to make something secure. Warranting and guarding refer to providing protection, while underwriting and pledging involve making a commitment to provide financial protection. Safeguarding and endorsing involve protecting something from harm, while covering and guaranteeing involve providing financial protection.