endure

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.

   The singer's popularity endured for decades.

2. 2
   verb

   To last.

   Our love will endure forever.

3. 3
   verb

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

   Can thine heart indure, or can thine hands be ſtrong in the dayes that I ſhall deale with thee?

4. 4
   verb

   To suffer patiently.

   He endured years of pain.

5. 5
   verb

   put up with something or somebody unpleasant

6. 6
   verb

   undergo or be subjected to

7. 7
   verb

   continue to live through hardship or adversity

8. 8
   verb

   continue to exist

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- 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.