endure
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
endure (endures, present participle enduring; past and past participle endured)
- (intransitive) To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.
- The singer's popularity endured for decades.
- (transitive) To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
- (intransitive) To last.
- Our love will endure forever.
- Bible, Job viii. 15
- He shall hold it [his house] 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.
- Bible, Ezekiel xxii. 14
- Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with thee?
- Bible, Ezekiel xxii. 14
- (transitive) To suffer patiently.
- He endured years of pain.
- (obsolete) To indurate.
- (to continue despite obstacles) carry on, plug away; See also Thesaurus:persevere
- (to tolerate something) bear, thole, take; See also Thesaurus:tolerate
- (to last) go on, hold on, persist; See also Thesaurus:persist
- (to remain firm) resist, survive, withstand
- (to suffer patiently) accept, thole, withstand
- (to indurate)
- French: endurer, perdurer
- German: ertragen, aushalten
- Italian: durare, restare, resistere, perdurare
- Portuguese: aguentar, prevalecer
- Russian: выде́рживать
- Spanish: aguantar, perdurar
- German: dulden
- Italian: tollerare, sopportare
- Portuguese: aguentar, suportar
- Russian: терпе́ть
- Spanish: tolerar, consentir, condescender
- Italian: sopportare, tollerare, soffrire di
- Portuguese: sofrer, aguentar
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