endure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: yod-coalescence, without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /ɪnˈd͡ʒʊə̯(ɹ)/
note: yod-coalescence, pour–poor merger
ipa: /ɪnˈd͡ʒɔː(ɹ)/
note: without the yod-coalescence, without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /ɪnˈdjʊə̯(ɹ)/
note: without the yod-coalescence, pour–poor merger
ipa: /ɪnˈdjɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɪnˈd(j)ʊɹ/
ipa: /ɪnˈdɝ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: endures
form: enduring
form: endured
form: endured
form: enduer
form: indure
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Old Latin en
Latin in
Latin in-
Proto-Italic *dūros
Latin dūrūs
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin dūrō
Latin indūrō
Latin indūrāreder.
Old French endurerbor.
Middle English enduren
English endure
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.
Senses: examples: text: The singer's popularity endured for decades.
text: […] 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.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XVIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 30:
synonyms: word: carry on
word: plug away
word: abide
word: astand
word: bear up
word: carry on
word: continue
word: endure
word: follow up
word: hang in there
word: hold on
word: hold out
word: hold the line
word: hold up
word: keep a stiff upper lip
word: keep trying
word: keep up
word: persevere
word: persist
word: plod
word: plug
word: plug away
word: resist
word: soldier on
word: stay
word: stay the course
word: stay the distance
word: stick it out
word: stick to
word: stick by one's guns
word: stick to one's guns
word: stick with
word: stick with it
glosses: To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.
synonyms: word: bear
word: thole
word: take
word: abear
word: abide
word: aby
word: accept
word: allow
word: bear
word: bide
word: brook
word: dree
word: endure
word: forbear
word: go along with
word: live with
word: pass
word: pocket
word: pouch
word: put up with
word: stand
word: stick
word: stomach
word: suffer
word: swallow
word: take
word: take sitting down
word: thole
word: tolerate
word: undergang
word: undergo
glosses: To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
examples: text: Our love will endure forever.
text: He ſhall leane vpon his houſe, but it ſhall not ſtand: he ſhal hold it faſt, but it ſhall not endure.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 8:15, column 2:
synonyms: word: go on
word: hold on
word: persist
word: abide
word: aby
word: astand
word: endure
word: go on
word: lie
word: prevail
word: hold on
word: last
word: live
word: persist
word: remain
word: stick
word: stick it out
word: stick out
glosses: To last.
examples: text: Can thine heart indure, or can thine hands be ſtrong in the dayes that I ſhall deale with thee?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 22:14, column 1:
synonyms: resist
survive
withstand
glosses: To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.
examples: text: He endured years of pain.
text: 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.
ref: 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: accept
thole
withstand
glosses: To suffer patiently.
glosses: To indurate.
Derived terms: co-endure
coendure
endurability
endurable
outendure
unendured
Related terms: endurance
enduring
enduro
duress