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  1. adjective Secure from danger, harm, or evil.
  2. adjective Free from danger or injury; unhurt: safe and sound.
  3. adjective Free from risk; sure: a safe bet.
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  • Smiling grimly, he trundled into his den Like its owner, his safe was an antique, the combination lock encircled with worn red letters instead of numbers. —  FSF,March2008
  • Because the safe was the double-cross Spammy's fingers worked the laptop frantically. —  Also by Christopher Brookmyre
  • For those of you who don't like burying the coins around the yard (after all, the safe is the first place an armed robber would look), better to stick with the —  US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha
  • Unfortunately, the safe was accessible to several other employees who were not cleared to view Classified Information. —  Jonestown
  • "None of the systems, programs and professionals that Canadians would reasonably expect to have been made (available) to help this young woman and keep her safe were there to adequately respond to her needs," he told the press conference. —  Top Stories - Google News
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English sauf, from Old French, from Latin salvus, healthy; see sol- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English safe, saf, saaf, sauf, saulfe, save, sauve, from Old French sauf, saulf, salf, masculine, sauve, saulve, feminine, French sauf masculine, sauve, feminine, = Provencal salv, salf, sal = Old Catalan sal = Spanish Portuguese Italian salvo, from Latin salvus, whole, safe, orig. *sarvus, prob. ult. = sollus, whole, sōlus, single, sole (see sole, solid), orig. = Persian har, every, all, every one, = Sanskrit sarva, entire. From the same Latin source are ult. English save, save, save = sage, salute, etc. Cf. vouchsafe.
  2. from safe, n. Cf. save.
 

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