endure
See also: enduré
English
Alternative forms
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
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ʊə(r)
Verb
endure (third-person singular simple present endures, present participle enduring, simple past and past participle endured)
- (intransitive) To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships.
- The singer's popularity endured for decades.
- (transitive) To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
- (intransitive) To last.
- Our love will endure forever.
- Bible, Job viii. 15
- He shall hold it [his house] fast, but it shall not endure.
- 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?
- Bible, Ezekiel xxii. 14
- (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.
- (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
Translations
to endure — see take
endure, undergo — see suffer
to continue despite obstacles
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to tolerate something
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to suffer
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to last
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References
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “endure”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
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French
Pronunciation
Verb
endure
- first-person singular present indicative of endurer
- third-person singular present indicative of endurer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of endurer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of endurer
- second-person singular imperative of endurer
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