endure

See also: enduré

English

Alternative forms

• enduer (obsolete)
• indure (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English enduren, borrowed from Old French endurer, from Latin indūrō (“to make hard”). Displaced Old English drēogan, which survives dialectally as dree.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdjʊə̯(ɹ)/, /ɪnˈdjɔː(ɹ)/, /ɪnˈd͡ʒʊə̯(ɹ)/, /ɪnˈd͡ʒɔː(ɹ)/
• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈd(j)ʊɹ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʊə(r)

Verb

endure (third-person singular simple present endures, present participle enduring, simple past and past participle endured)

1. (intransitive) To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships.

   The singer's popularity endured for decades.

2. (transitive) To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
3. (intransitive) To last.

   Our love will endure forever.

   • Bible, Job viii. 15

     He shall hold it [his house] fast, but it shall not endure.

4. To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.
   • Bible, Ezekiel xxii. 14

     Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with thee?

5. (transitive) To suffer patiently.

   He endured years of pain.

   • 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley.

6. (obsolete) To indurate.

Synonyms

• (to continue despite obstacles): carry on, plug away; See also Thesaurus:persevere
• (to tolerate something): bear, thole, take; See also Thesaurus:tolerate
• (to last): go on, hold on, persist; See also Thesaurus:persist
• (to remain firm): resist, survive, withstand
• (to suffer patiently): accept, thole, withstand
• (to indurate):

Related terms

• endurance
• enduring
• enduro
• duress

Translations

to endure — see take

endure, undergo — see suffer

to continue despite obstacles

• Albanian: duroj (sq)

  Arbëresh: psonj

• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: دام (dām)

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Aromanian: aravdu
• Azerbaijani: dözmək (az)
• Bulgarian: издържам (bg) (izdǎržam)
• Catalan: aguantar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 承受 (zh) (chéngshòu), 忍受 (zh) (rěnshòu)

• Czech: vytrvat
• Danish: holde (da), vare (da)
• Dutch: voortduren (nl)
• Esperanto: elteni
• Finnish: kestää (fi)
• French: endurer (fr), perdurer (fr)
• Galician: aguantar (gl)
• Georgian: გაძლება (gaʒleba), თმენა (tmena), მოთმენა (motmena)
• German: ertragen (de), aushalten (de)
• Greek: αντέχω (el) (antécho)

  Ancient: ὑπομένω (hupoménō)

• Hungarian: kitart (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: durar (io)
• Italian: durare (it), restare (it), resistere (it), perdurare (it)
• Japanese: 耐える (ja) (たえる, taeru)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: perpetior, habeo (la)
• Maori: taimau
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: enduther
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: holde ut

• Occitan: durar, perdurar
• Portuguese: aguentar (pt), prevalecer
• Romanian: îndura (ro), răbda (ro)
• Russian: выде́рживать (ru) impf (vydérživatʹ), вы́держать (ru) pf (výderžatʹ), терпе́ть (ru) impf (terpétʹ), вы́терпеть (ru) pf (výterpetʹ), выноси́ть (ru) impf (vynosítʹ), вы́нести (ru) pf (výnesti)
• Spanish: aguantar (es), perdurar (es)
• Telugu: నిలబడు (te) (nilabaḍu) (nilabaDu), నిలుచు (te) (nilucu) (niluchu)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Urdu: قائم رہنا (qaeem rehnaa)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

to tolerate something

• Arabic:

  Moroccan Arabic: صبر (ṣbar)

• Bulgarian: трая (bg) (traja), понасям (bg) (ponasjam)
• Czech: snášet (cs)
• Danish: udholde, tåle
• Dutch: verdragen (nl)
• Finnish: kestää (fi), sietää (fi)
• Galician: tolerar (gl)
• Georgian: მოთმენა (motmena), თმენა (tmena), გაძლება (gaʒleba)
• German: dulden (de)
• Greek: αντέχω (el) (antécho), ανέχομαι (el) (anéchomai), υπομένω (el) (ypoméno)

  Ancient: ὑπομένω (hupoménō)

• Hungarian: elvisel (hu), kibír (hu)
• Irish: iompair
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: tollerare (it), sopportare (it)
• Latin: perpetior, tolerō
• Maori: koromaki, whakataumaha
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utstå

• Occitan: endurar, soportar
• Portuguese: aguentar (pt), suportar (pt)
• Romanian: tolera (ro), îngădui (ro), suporta (ro)
• Russian: терпе́ть (ru) impf (terpétʹ), вы́терпеть (ru) pf (výterpetʹ), выноси́ть (ru) impf (vynosítʹ), вы́нести (ru) pf (výnesti)
• Spanish: tolerar (es), consentir (es), condescender (es)
• Telugu: ఓర్చు (te) (ōrcu) (Orchu), భరించు (te) (bhariñcu) (bharinchu)
• Urdu: برداشت کرنا (bardasht karna), قائم رہنا (qaeem rehna)
• Walloon: edurer (wa)

to suffer

• Danish: døje, udholde, holde ud
• Finnish: kärsiä (fi)
• Greek: υπομένω (el) (ypoméno), αντέχω (el) (antécho), τραβάω (el) (traváo), εγκαρτερώ (el) (egkarteró)

  Ancient Greek: πάσχω (páskhō)

• Ido: subisar (io)
• Indonesian: menderita (id)
• Irish: iompair
• Italian: sopportare (it), tollerare (it), soffrire di
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: whakataumaha, whakataimaha
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utstå, holde ut med, utholde

• Occitan: endurar
• Portuguese: sofrer (pt), aguentar (pt)
• Swedish: genomlida
• Urdu: بھگتنا (bhugatnaa)

to last

• Arabic: اِسْتَمَرَّ (istamarra)
• Bulgarian: трая (bg) (traja), продължавам (bg) (prodǎlžavam)
• Danish: vare (da), leve (da)
• Finnish: kestää (fi)
• Galician: durar (gl)
• Georgian: გაძლება (gaʒleba)
• German: von Bestand sein
• Ido: durar (io)
• Italian: durare (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vare (no)

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Occitan: durar, perdurar
• Portuguese: durar (pt), resistir (pt)
• Romanian: dura (ro)
• Scottish Gaelic: seas
• Spanish: durar (es)
• Urdu: جھیلنا (jhelna)
• Walloon: durer (wa)

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “endure”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• durene, enduer, enured, reuned

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.dyʁ/

Verb

endure

1. first-person singular present indicative of endurer
2. third-person singular present indicative of endurer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of endurer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of endurer
5. second-person singular imperative of endurer

Anagrams

• rendue