[en-doo
r, -dyoor] 
verb, -dured, -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. |
| 3. | to admit of; allow; bear: His poetry is such that it will not endure a superficial reading. |
| 4. | to continue to exist; last: These words will endure as long as people live who love freedom. |
| 5. | to support adverse force or influence of any kind; suffer without yielding; suffer patiently: Even in the darkest ages humanity has endured. |
| 6. | 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. |
| en·dure (ěn-dŏŏr', -dyŏŏr') v. en·dured, en·dur·ing, en·dures v. tr.
[Middle English enduren, from Old French endurer, from Latin indūrāre, to make hard : in-, against, into; see en-1 + dūrus, hard; see deru- in Indo-European roots.] |