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warranted

verb

Meaning

  1. To protect, keep safe (from danger).
  2. To give (someone) an assurance or guarantee (of something); also, with a double object: to guarantee (someone something).
  3. To guarantee (something) to be (of a specified quality, value, etc.).
  4. To guarantee as being true; (colloquially) to believe strongly.
  5. To authorize; to give (someone) sanction or warrant (to do something).
  6. To justify; to give grounds for.
  7. Authorized with a warrant.
  8. Deserved, necessary, appropriate.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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