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verb (used with object)
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.
verb (used without object)
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.
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Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English enduren < Anglo-French, Old French endurer < Latin indūrāre to harden, make lasting, equivalent to in- in-2 + dūrāre to last, be or become hard, derivative of dūrus hard
1275–1325; Middle English enduren < Anglo-French, Old French endurer < Latin indūrāre to harden, make lasting, equivalent to in- in-2 + dūrāre to last, be or become hard, derivative of dūrus hard
Related forms
en·dur·er, noun
un·en·dured, adjective
Antonyms
4. fail, die.
4. fail, die.
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Example Sentences
- The official definition of sustainability is the capacity to endure.
- You must endure the unfairness.
- It is the strongest assurance that the recovery will endure.
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Word Origin & History
endure
late 14c., from O.Fr. endurer, from L. indurare "make hard," in L.L. "harden (the heart) against," from in- "in" + durare "to harden," from durus "hard," from PIE *deru- "be firm, solid." Replaced the important O.E. verb dreogan (pt. dreag, pp. drogen), which survives in dial. dree. Related: Endured;
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