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endured - 2 dictionary results

en⋅dure

  [en-door, -dyoor] verb, -dured, -dur⋅ing.
Use endured in a Sentence
–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.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME enduren < AF, OF endurer < L indūrāre to harden, make lasting, equiv. to in- in- 2 + dūrāre to last, be or become hard, deriv. of dūrus hard

Related forms:
en⋅dur⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
2. stand, support, suffer, brook. See bear 1 . 4. abide. See continue.

Antonyms:
4. fail, die.
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en·dure   (ěn-dŏŏr', -dyŏŏr')   
v.   en·dured, en·dur·ing, en·dures

v.   tr.
  1. To carry on through, despite hardships; undergo: endure an Arctic winter.
  2. To bear with tolerance: "We seek the truth, and will endure the consequences" (Charles Seymour). See Synonyms at bear1.
v.   intr.
  1. To continue in existence; last: buildings that have endured for centuries.
  2. To suffer patiently without yielding.

[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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