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Definition of Safe
Safe

Free from harm, injury, or risk; untouched or unthreatened by danger or injury; unharmed; unhurt; secure; whole; as, safe from disease; safe from storms; safe from foes.

Conferring safety; securing from harm; not exposing to danger; confining securely; to be relied upon; not dangerous; as, a safe harbor; a safe bridge, etc.

Incapable of doing harm; no longer dangerous; in secure care or custody; as, the prisoner is safe.

A place for keeping things in safety.

A strong and fireproof receptacle (as a movable chest of steel, etc., or a closet or vault of brickwork) for containing money, valuable papers, or the like.

A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects.

To render safe; to make right.

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Safe Quotations

Music is a safe kind of high.
Jimi Hendrix

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
George Orwell

He that's secure is not safe.
Benjamin Franklin

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
Thomas Jefferson

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Safe Translations

safe in Afrikaans is veilig
safe in Dutch is safe, geborgen, behouden, veilig
safe in Finnish is varma
safe in Italian is sicuramente
safe in Latin is tutis, securus, impunitus, salvus, incolumis
safe in Portuguese is seguro


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