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endured

[en-door, -dyoor]

verb (used with object)

to hold out against; sustain without impairment or yielding; undergo: to endure great financial pressures with equanimity.

to bear without resistance or with patience; tolerate: I cannot endure your insults any longer.

to admit of; allow; bear: His poetry is such that it will not endure a superficial reading.

verb (used without object)

to continue to exist; last: These words will endure as long as people live who love freedom.

to support adverse force or influence of any kind; suffer without yielding; suffer patiently: Even in the darkest ages humanity has endured.

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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Endured is always a great word to know.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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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

Related forms

en·dur·er, noun

un·en·dured, adjective

Synonyms
2. stand, support, suffer, brook. See bear¹. 4. abide. See continue.

Antonyms
4. fail, die.

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Example Sentences

Bobbitt's brutality: brutality she herself endured for too long".

He has endured all by focusing on achieving the highest academic degree.

Unemployment peaked well below the levels endured in past recessions.

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Bobbitt's brutality: brutality she herself endured for too long".

He has endured all by focusing on achieving the highest academic degree.

Unemployment peaked well below the levels endured in past recessions.

Those who survived endured unimaginable hunger, thirst, and brutality-and an epic trek across the unmapped desert to freedom.

Hoku endured some rough days before he died last spring.

The broad narrative has become familiar and has endured despite challenges and modifications.

Its simple and easy two-holed receiver design endured for.

Wollheim endured could sustain so deep a zest for life.

Alumnae of the era recalled having endured a strict education.

She endured back pain all her life and became depressive, lame and alcoholic.

But the hardships endured by its settlers raise questions about the resources and political will to sustain such projects.

The pain and hardship endured by those little mice is no where near legitimized given the results.

Others endured the long line only to see the smiles of their loved ones as they admired their beautiful headwraps in the mirror.

He married and had a child, then endured a bitter and costly divorce.

Bobbitt testified that she had endured constant abuse during their four-year marriage.

The correlation held only if carriers had endured abusive treatment during childhood.

Agents have harrowing stories to tell of the suffering endured by the immigrants.

Representatives say any momentary suffering endured by the sheep is far better than a long and agonizing death from flystrike.

When he reached the hospital, he endured over four hours of surgery to successfully realign his neck.

The ferocious press attention she endured from childhood fed a lifelong mania for privacy.

But living with a dad, sister, uncle or wife who's endured combat has its own implications for today's households.

We are not even customers, who must be satisfied and endured.

But many of us humans have endured things as children that leave lasting impacts on the psyche.

And having endured one war of attrition, the bank cannot now afford a second lengthy battle over its future.

They endured beatings and other abuse from their captors.

So my sister endured the wrath of my parents and in return, my face took the wrath of my sisters beatings.

What these men and their families endured for their country was tremendous.

Both companies endured in-flight emergencies with their latest airliners that required grounding the aircraft.

And for an year did he wooed her with his shekels and comfort her with his checkbook and she endured him.

Successful applicants endured an ascetic routine of prayers and work from six in the morning until ten at night.

The mystical bond between humans and horses has endured throughout the.

For nine years the man also endured reoccurring attacks of strange bodily sensations that always followed the same pattern.

Semon endured several lab explosions and rather dicey near misses.

After the candidate had endured the rigorous questioning by no fewer than eight interviewers, my former colleague would ask:.

It offers the first cinematic reconstruction of the vast velodrome, in which families endured hot and unsanitary conditions.

It also covers the conditions endured by the film crew to get the footage.

Sports cars, race cars, and train cars made from composite materials have endured fantastic crashes.

Life in today's world can be endured to an extent without.

TV has endured because it has responded better to such threats than other media businesses.

The wall has endured centuries of seasons and remains ready to host visitors year round.

The sound issues and scheduling problems that we've long endured this year became genuine inconveniences.

She endured endless anonymous attacks by emails and letters.

Budgeting, usually a headache endured annually, has become a chronic migraine for many city governments.

People risked death, endured heartbreak, rather than turn their backs on the country.

Ayala has endured frequent and, at times, continuous combat stress.

Endured this with my son going from the toddler room to the twos room.

Britain's endured a dud quarter or two as it emerged from previous recessions.

Ani endured centuries of war and earthquakes before being left to the desert plateau.

Recently my family endured a week of cabin fever brought on by snow, weblessness, and our general proximity to one another.

Now, in a pre-postmodern society the mocking he endured at recess would have marked the end of his career in dance.

She endured grim years in detention after her father's death.

The mystical bond between humans and horses has endured throughout.

But the disturbing imagery endured in one way or another, including furniture design.

They also endured the scorn of many of those they thought they served.

Microsoft's model of expanding into new markets by adding products to its dominant operating system endured.

The town grew and endured because of one thing, he said-connaissance.

The reason why these characters have endured is that they're resonant.

The term has gone out of fashion but the forces that prompted its use have endured.

It largely missed the housing and dotcom booms and busts endured by the rest of the country.

There they endured forced labour before being packed back to their villages.

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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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