Endure

/ɪnˈd͡ʒʊə(ɹ)/ · verb

Meaning

(intransitive) To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.
2. (transitive) To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
3. (intransitive) To last.
4. To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.
5. (transitive) To suffer patiently.
6. (obsolete) To indurate.

Example Sentences

The singer's popularity endured for decades.

[…] The life that almost dies in me: That dies not, but endures with pain, ⁠And slowly forms the firmer mind, ⁠Treasuring the look it cannot find, The words that are not heard again.

Our love will endure forever.

He ſhall leane vpon his houſe, but it ſhall not ſtand: he ſhal hold it faſt, but it ſhall not endure.

Can thine heart indure, or can thine hands be ſtrong in the dayes that I ſhall deale with thee?

He endured years of pain.

Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley.

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• endures
• enduring
• endured
• enduer
• indure

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