Meaning

(intransitive) To endure alongside someone or something, to coexist over time..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To endure alongside someone or something, to coexist over time.
2. (transitive) To endure or suffer with someone

Example Sentences

But the task before us, which is to co-endure with our existence, is rather one of microscopic fineness, and the heroism required is that of patience.

There is a saying, "Government will co-endure with unbelief, but not with injustice.

The admirable material structure of our noble Universities, the broad basis which unnumbered zealous benefactors have laid, the schools connected with them which spread over the whole kingdome, the sympathies and venerable remembrances with which their names are entwined, give them substance for a perpetual youth, co-enduring with the energies of the British nation, the prime talent of which they will long have the means of picking.

An ability to co-endure the pain and suffering of the afflicted requires an awareness that theirs is the sort of pain that manifests itself not just physically or psychologically, but socially as well.

Word Forms

• co-endures
• co-enduring
• co-endured
• coendure

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When Should You Use Co-endure?

Use co-endure when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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