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Endure

//ɪnˈd͡ʒʊə(ɹ)// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist. intransitive

    "The singer's popularity endured for decades."

  2. 2
    put up with something or somebody unpleasant wordnet
  3. 3
    To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant. transitive
  4. 4
    undergo or be subjected to wordnet
  5. 5
    To last. intransitive

    "Our love will endure forever."

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  1. 6
    continue to live and avoid dying wordnet
  2. 7
    To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.

    "Can thine heart indure, or can thine hands be ſtrong in the dayes that I ſhall deale with thee?"

  3. 8
    continue to exist wordnet
  4. 9
    To suffer patiently. transitive

    "He endured years of pain."

  5. 10
    persist for a specified period of time wordnet
  6. 11
    To indurate. obsolete
  7. 12
    last and be usable wordnet
  8. 13
    face and withstand with courage wordnet

Etymology

Etymology tree ▲ Proto-Indo-European *h₁en- Proto-Indo-European *h₁en- Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Italic *dūros Latin dūrūs Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin dūrō Latin indūrō Latin indūrāreder. Old French endurerbor. Middle English enduren English endure From Middle English enduren, from Old French endurer, from Latin indūrō (“to make hard”). Displaced Old English drēogan, which survives dialectally as dree. Doublet of dure.

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