endure

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US /ɪnˈd͡ʒʊə(ɹ)/ See IPA manual

Freq #6314

Meanings

1

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

She endured years of pain before the treatment finally worked.
2

verb
To continue to exist over a long time.

The singer's popularity endured for decades.

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Synonyms

1 verb · to suffer something painful... bear withstand suffer accept

2 verb · to continue to exist over a... last persist continue remain

Word family

Forms enduredendures

Derived forms co-endurecoendureendurabilityendurableoutendureunendured

Related forms duress endurance enduringenduro

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Phrases (1)

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endure a wait
to tolerate a wait, especially one that is long or difficult

Verb + noun

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.

enduren Middle English endurer Old French indūrō Latin

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# endure

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B1
**Part of speech:** verb
**IPA (US):** /ɪnˈd͡ʒʊə(ɹ)/
**Frequency rank:** 6314

## Meanings
1. To suffer something painful or difficult patiently, without giving up.
2. To continue to exist over a long time.

## Examples
- She endured years of pain before the treatment finally worked.
- The singer's popularity endured for decades.

## Derived Forms
- co-endure
- coendure
- endurability
- endurable
- outendure
- unendured

## Related Forms
- duress
- endurance
- enduring
- enduro

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: enduren
- Root: endurer
- Root: indūrō

## 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.

## AI Etymology
Endure comes 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. In current use, the main senses are “To suffer something painful or difficult patiently, without giving up” and “To continue to exist over a long time”.

## Topics
- Actions & Processes

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