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Definitions of safe and sound words

adjective safe and sound unharmed and well 1
phrase safe and sound You say that someone is safe and sound when they are still alive or unharmed after being in danger. 0

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A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 96% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

bright-eyed — eager; fresh and enthusiastic
bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
healthy — possessing or enjoying good health or a sound and vigorous mentality: a healthy body; a healthy mind.
home free — a house, apartment, or other shelter that is the usual residence of a person, family, or household.
in fine feather — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.

adjusted — psychologically well or badly equipped to cope with reality and ordinary life and relationships
anchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
maintained — to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: to maintain good relations with neighboring countries.
nailed — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.

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