endure

Forms

present (v1): endure
past (v2): endured
past participle (v3): endured
present participle: enduring
3rd person singular: endures

Definitions

1.To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.
- The singer's popularity endured for decades.
2.To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
3.To last.
- Our love will endure forever.
4.To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.

Frequency

Overall

Uncommon· #3915

By learning goal

Everyday conversation: Rare
General reading & writing: Uncommon
Academic: Rare
Literature: Rare

Related words

Antonyms

enjoy

Synonyms

Word family

end

Etymology

Etymology tree

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.