endure
verbUK /ɪnˈd͡ʒɵː/ · US /ɪnˈd(j)ʊɹ/
Etymology From Middle English enduren, from Old French endurer, from Latin indūrō (“to make hard”). Displaced Old English drēogan, which survives dialectally as dree. Doublet of dure.
1
To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.
- 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.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XVIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 30:
2
To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
3
To last.
- 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.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 8:15, column 2:
4
To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.
- Can thine heart indure, or can thine hands be ſtrong in the dayes that I ſhall deale with thee?1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 22:14, column 1:
5
To suffer patiently.
- 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.2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
6
Obsolete To indurate.
- Derived terms
- co-endure, coendure, endurability, endurable, outendure, unendured