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endure

[ en-door, -dyoor ]

verb (used with object)

, en·dured, en·dur·ing.
  1. to hold out against; sustain without impairment or yielding; undergo:

    to endure great financial pressures with equanimity.

  2. to bear without resistance or with patience; tolerate:

    I cannot endure your insults any longer.

    Synonyms: brook, suffer, support, stand

  3. to admit of; allow; bear:

    His poetry is such that it will not endure a superficial reading.



verb (used without object)

, en·dured, en·dur·ing.
  1. to continue to exist; last:

    These words will endure as long as people live who love freedom.

    Synonyms: abide

    Antonyms: die, fail

  2. to support adverse force or influence of any kind; suffer without yielding; suffer patiently:

    Even in the darkest ages humanity has endured.

  3. to have or gain continued or lasting acknowledgment or recognition, as of worth, merit or greatness:

    His plays have endured for more than three centuries.

endure

/ ɪnˈdjʊə /

verb

  1. to undergo (hardship, strain, privation, etc) without yielding; bear
  2. tr to permit or tolerate
  3. intr to last or continue to exist
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • enˌduraˈbility, noun
  • enˈdurable, adjective
  • enˈdurably, adverb
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Other Words From

  • en·durer noun
  • unen·dured adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of endure1

First recorded in 1275–1325; Middle English enduren, from Anglo-French, Old French endurer, from Latin indūrāre “to harden, make lasting,” equivalent to in- in- 2 + dūrāre “to last, be or become hard,” derivative of dūrus “hard”
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Word History and Origins

Origin of endure1

C14: from Old French endurer, from Latin indūrāre to harden, from dūrus hard
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Synonym Study

See bear 1. See continue.
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Example Sentences

This is a degrading and shameful state which no man or woman should be forced to endure.

But alas, a snub is yet another of the many indignities Valerie Cherish shall endure.

Mary Soames is an exception to the rule that gilded offspring endure life rather than enjoy it.

Some might lack the fortitude—or masochism—required to endure a grueling campaign (Rubio).

“That was the first time I realized I would endure a lot of discrimination,” she says.

But this alliance is rotten, and cannot endure; the Western men are no partizans of slavery.

Who could suppose that two tolerably civilized nations would endure this in the middle of 1851?

(b) All those who are under 20 and more than 50 years of age, and who are strong enough to endure the fatigue of a campaign.

Though built upon the sand, they still endured, and would continue to endure.

It is astonishing how much petting a big boy of ten can endure when he is quite sure that there is no one to laugh at him.

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