endure

Alternative forms

• enduer, indure (obsolete)

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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdjʊə̯(ɹ)/, /ɪnˈdjɔː(ɹ)/, /ɪnˈd͡ʒʊə̯(ɹ)/, /ɪnˈd͡ʒɔː(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈd(j)ʊɹ/, /ɪnˈdɝ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)

Verb

endure (third-person singular simple present endures, present participle enduring, simple past and past participle endured)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.

   Synonyms: bear, thole, take; see also Thesaurus:tolerate

3. (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.

4. To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.

   Synonyms: resist, survive, withstand

   • 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?

5. (transitive) To suffer patiently.

   Synonyms: accept, thole, withstand

   He endured years of pain.

   • 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport‎:

     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.

6. (obsolete) To indurate.

Anagrams

• durene, enduer, enured, reuned

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.dyʁ/

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Verb

endure

1. inflection of endurer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• rendue

Verb

endure

1. inflection of endurar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative