endure
See also: enduré
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English enduren, from Old French endurer, from Latin indūrō (“to make hard”). Displaced Old English drēogan, which survives dialectally as dree.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˈdjʊə̯(ɹ)/, /ɪnˈdjɔː(ɹ)/, /ɪnˈd͡ʒʊə̯(ɹ)/, /ɪnˈd͡ʒɔː(ɹ)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪnˈd(j)ʊɹ/, /ɪnˈdɝ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Verb
editendure (third-person singular simple present endures, present participle enduring, simple past and past participle endured)
- (intransitive) To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.
- Synonyms: carry on, plug away; see also Thesaurus:persevere
- The singer's popularity endured for decades.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XVIII, page 30:
- […] 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.
- (transitive) To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
- Synonyms: bear, thole, take; see also Thesaurus:tolerate
- (intransitive) To last.
- Synonyms: go on, hold on, persist; see also Thesaurus:persist
- Our love will endure forever.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 8:15, column 2:
- He ſhall leane vpon his houſe, but it ſhall not ſtand: he ſhal hold it faſt, but it ſhall not endure.
- To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 22:14, column 1:
- Can thine heart indure, or can thine hands be ſtrong in the dayes that I ſhall deale with thee?
- (transitive) To suffer patiently.
- 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- 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.
- (obsolete) To indurate.
Derived terms
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editTranslations
editto continue despite obstacles
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to tolerate something
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to last
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to suffer patiently
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References
edit- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “endure”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
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editendure
- inflection of endurer:
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editSpanish
editVerb
editendure
- inflection of endurar:
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