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en⋅dure
[en-doo
r, -dyoor] 
verb, -dured, -dur⋅ing.–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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| 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.] |
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Endure
En*dure"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Endured; p. pr. & vb. n. Enduring.] [F. endurer; pref. en- (L. in) + durer to last. See Dure, v. i., and cf. Indurate.]1. To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain. Their verdure still endure. --Shak. He shall hold it [his house] fast, but it shall not endure. --Job viii. 15. 2. 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 endure, or can thine hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with thee? --Ezek. xxii. 14.Endure
En*dure"\, v. t. 1. To remain firm under; to sustain; to undergo; to support without breaking or yielding; as, metals endure a certain degree of heat without melting; to endure wind and weather. Both were of shining steel, and wrought so pure, As might the strokes of two such arms endure. --Dryden. 2. To bear with patience; to suffer without opposition or without sinking under the pressure or affliction; to bear up under; to put up with; to tolerate. I will no longer endure it. --Shak. Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake. --2 Tim. ii. 10. How can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? --Esther viii. 6. 3. To harden; to toughen; to make hardy. [Obs.] Manly limbs endured with little ease. --Spenser. Syn: To last; remain; continue; abide; brook; submit to; suffer.
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Language Translation for : endure
Spanish:
soportar,
German:
aushalten,
Japanese:
耐える
endure
c.1382, 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.
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