endure

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To suffer something painful or difficult patiently, without giving up.

   She endured years of pain before the treatment finally worked.

2. 2
   verb

   To continue to exist over a long time.

   The singer's popularity endured for decades.

Common collocations

• endure a wait Verb + noun

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.

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