safety
/ˈseɪfti/ verb C2- To secure (a mechanical component, as in aviation) to keep it from becoming detached even under vibration.
- to secure a firing pin, as in guns, to keep the gun from firing
He/she/it safeties · Past safetied · Past participle safetied · -ing form safetying
Verb forms
- Base form
- safety
- He/she/it
- safeties
- Past
- safetied
- Past participle
- safetied
- -ing form
- safetying
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The Innkeeper, frightened lest he should be attacked, left his new coat in the Thief’s hand and ran as fast as he could into the inn for safety.
But the Mouse reached his hole in safety.
“Be silent, you simpleton!” cried Danglars, grasping him by the arm, “or I will not answer even for your own safety.
“Why, that is the very worst offence they could possibly commit; for, don’t you see, Renée, the king is the father of his people, and he who shall plot or contrive aught against the life and safety of the parent of thirty-two millions of souls, is a parricide upon a fearfully great scale?”
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