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Safer

Safe \Safe\, a. [Compar. Safer; superl. Safest.] [OE. sauf, F. sauf, fr. L. salvus, akin to salus health, welfare, safety. Cf. Salute, Salvation, Sage a plant, Save, Salvo an exception.]

  1. 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. ``And ye dwelled safe.''
    --1 Sam. xii. 11.

    They escaped all safe to land.
    --Acts xxvii. 44.

    Established in a safe, unenvied throne.
    --Milton.

  2. 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. ``The man of safe discretion.''
    --Shak.

    The King of heaven hath doomed This place our dungeon, not our safe retreat.
    --Milton.

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

    But Banquo's safe? Ay, my good lord, safe in a ditch he bides.
    --Shak.

    Safe hit (Baseball), a hit which enables the batter to get to first base even if no error is made by the other side.

    safe house, a residence where a person in hiding from the authorities or other persons may stay without being discovered.

    Syn: Secure; unendangered; sure.

Wiktionary
safer

a. (en-comparative of: safe)

Wikipedia
Safer

Safer or SAFER may refer to:

  • Safer (surname)
  • Safar or safer, the second month of the Islamic calendar
  • SAFER, a family of block ciphers
  • Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation, a Denver-based marijuana legalization effort
  • Simplified Aid For EVA Rescue, a propulsive backpack system
  • SAFER barrier or Steel and Foam Energy Reduction barrier, a technology intended to make racing accidents safer
  • SubAntarctic Foundation for Ecosystems Research
Safer (surname)

Safer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Jeanne Safer (born 1947), American psychotherapist and writer
  • John Safer (born 1922), American sculptor
  • Morley Safer (1931–2016), Canadian television journalist
  • Tolga Safer (born 1982), British actor

Usage examples of "safer".

Her own attention focused on what she needed most to make her ship and her crew safer while in port.

At any rate, the evidence at this point does not support holding you in custody, even though you might be safer here than out on the streets.

But as we know to our cost, a thousand widely separated experimenters are safer than a thousand in a bunch.

Mechanical moles were chewing through the sub-strata, forming the arteries of a new and safer city beyond reach of rockets and bombs.

Three more were to be wasted in waiting waiting for release from earthly depths which, at least, were safer than the perilous surface.

Christie, you will undoubtedly receive invitations from people it would be safer not to visit.

He supposed that with war flaring in the region, people who had any choice about the matter had fled to safer places or were staying home.

He could think of no safer place for Kate to pass the time until Apollo had settled his business with the Underworld.

Chris had left her to organize a safer retreat from which she could lead the Gambiones.

It would be safer, and far more comfortable, to spend the rest of the three months like brother and sister.

Ambush was a safer technique than pursuit, so Death began taking its pleasures in dark corners and lonely places.

I wanted to, but it was a stretch even for him to believe a Ket would feel safer in a war zone.

If I am to travel in Sioux territory, it will be safer to have a relative of the Sioux with me.

And since Selenay was going to be costumed identically with eleven of her ladies, at least until the moment of unmasking, this was probably one of the few times when she would be safer without a bodyguard.

No secret was ever safer, and he and Kantor felt that to get the best result, he needed the informed cooperation of the Companions.