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What is the verb for safety?

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safen
  1. (transitive) To make safe.
  2. (transitive) To protect a crop from injury from a herbicide by adding a safener.
  3. Examples:
    1. “I take a deep breath because his knowing Cora Blue seems to safen things up a little.”
      “She used to safen me when I was smaller, when I came here first. Her long, dark hair was my hiding place from the outside world.”
safeguard
save
  1. (transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.
    1. To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
    2. To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
    3. To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
    4. (theology) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
    5. (sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
  2. To put aside, to avoid.
    1. (transitive) To store for future use.
    2. (transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
    3. (transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
    4. (computing) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
    5. (intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
    6. (transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The karateka would save Princess Mariko from the evil Akuma.”
      “The family would manage to save some of their sentimental belongings from being lost in their burning home.”
      “He has decided to save for a new, and expensive, digital camera.”
safety
  1. (transitive) To secure (a mechanical component, as in aviation) to keep it from becoming detached even under vibration.
saved
safeguarding
saving
safe
  1. (transitive) To make something safe.
safeguards
safens
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of safen
safes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of safe
saves
saveth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of save
  2. Examples:
    1. “My salvation is in my Saviour who saveth me hence the redundancy and pleonasm of my asseveration.”
safeguarded
  1. simple past tense and past participle of safeguard
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “As milkweed dies, surviving butterflies begin their long, unwavering flights back to the sheltered groves that safeguarded their ancestors.”
      “Ash stopped if only to make Salacia end her pleading and put it back in the gold plated box that had safeguarded it.”
      “Rugby League has not only preserved its identity, it is safeguarded by a genuine respect for its fans, rival teams, and even officials.”
safetied
  1. simple past tense and past participle of safety
savest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of save
safened
  1. simple past tense and past participle of safen
  2. Examples:
    1. “This field will need to be rotated to grain sorghum and replanted using safened seed when soil moisture conditions permit field operations.”
safed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of safe
  2. Examples:
    1. “Through the design and use of high-standard lighting and heating solutions energy is safed and CO2 emissions are cut.”
      “Their diet consisted of game meat and gave birth to dishes like laal maas, safed maas, khad khargosh and jungli maas.”
      “Iron Dome anti-rocket batteries have been deployed in the northern regions of Safed, Amakim, and Haifa.”
safetying
  1. present participle of safety
safening
  1. present participle of safen
safing
  1. present participle of safe
  2. Examples:
    1. “A loadcrew member failed to properly insert the safing pin prior to retracting the missile's umbilical cable.”
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