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endure
[en-door, -dyoor]
verb (used with object)
to hold out against; sustain without impairment or yielding; undergo.
to endure great financial pressures with equanimity.
to bear without resistance or with patience; tolerate.
I cannot endure your insults any longer.
Synonyms: , , ,to admit of; allow; bear.
His poetry is such that it will not endure a superficial reading.
verb (used without object)
to continue to exist; last.
These words will endure as long as people live who love freedom.
Synonyms:Antonyms: ,to support adverse force or influence of any kind; suffer without yielding; suffer patiently.
Even in the darkest ages humanity has endured.
to have or gain continued or lasting acknowledgment or recognition, as of worth, merit or greatness.
His plays have endured for more than three centuries.
endure
/ ɪˈʊə /
verb
to undergo (hardship, strain, privation, etc) without yielding; bear
(tr) to permit or tolerate
(intr) to last or continue to exist
Other Word Forms
- endurer noun
- unendured adjective
- ˌܰˈٲ noun
- ˈܰ adjective
- ˈܰ adverb
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of endure1
Example Sentences
"John is enduring many surgeries right now and is closer every hour to being out of the woods," Mrs Hoffman wrote.
Overnight leader Burns and playing partner Adam Scott drowned in the rain, both enduring nightmare rounds of eight and nine over par respectively to finish well off the pace.
But on a night of all-around excellence from the Dodgers, no one impressed quite like the man who endures as the most familiar face on the team.
Paramount executives believe the show is worth the big bucks, given the show’s enduring popularity and legacy.
Ardern is so appealing, her manner so purposeful despite her admitted anxieties, that her struggle to respond forcefully and humanely to the pandemic — then endure threatening protests fueled by American-grown disinformation — is hard to watch.
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