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Endure   /ɛndjˈʊr/  /ɪndˈʊr/   Listen
Endure

verb
(past & past part. endured; pres. part. enduring)
1.
Put up with something or somebody unpleasant.  Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate.  "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks" , "He learned to tolerate the heat" , "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
2.
Face and withstand with courage.  Synonyms: brave, brave out, weather.
3.
Continue to live through hardship or adversity.  Synonyms: go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on, survive.  "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America" , "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents" , "How long can a person last without food and water?"
4.
Undergo or be subjected to.  Synonym: suffer.  "Many saints suffered martyrdom"
5.
Last and be usable.  Synonyms: hold out, wear.
6.
Persist for a specified period of time.  Synonym: last.
7.
Continue to exist.  Synonyms: die hard, persist, prevail, run.  "The legend of Elvis endures"






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"Endure" Quotes from Famous Books



... Don Juan et cetera, until in a rage I asked what the devil it all meant, when there was an explanation by a clergyman, and I swore myself clear. But I thought it was hard lines to have to stand the revolver, endure all the scandal for a week, and be innocent all the time withal! That was indeed ...
— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland

... Marie Antoinette would not allow her to endure those public exhibitions of the ceremony, of dressing herself which had been customary at Court. This reserve was highly approved by His Majesty; and one of the first reforms she introduced, after the accession, was in the internal ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre

... His furnace He refine my heart To make it pure, I only ask for grace to trust His love— Strength to endure; And if fierce storms beat round me, And the heavens be overcast, I know that He will give His weary one ...
— The Canadian Elocutionist • Anna Kelsey Howard

... kind winsome wifie, A clean canty hame, An' smilin' sweet babies To lisp the dear name; Wi' plenty o' labour, An' health to endure, Make time to row round ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

... course of empty bags and blank days than snuff out any poor, little, happy lives; but the occupation that these amusements would entail would displace and hinder the minute mental torments I now daily, in my listless, luxurious idleness, endure. I am thinking these thoughts one morning, as I turn over my unopened letters, and try, with the misplaced ingenuity and labor one is so apt to employ in such a case, to make out from the general air of their exteriors—from ...
— Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton


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