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Endured

Endure \En*dure"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Endured; p. pr. & vb. n. Enduring.] [F. endurer; pref. en- (L. in) + durer to last. See Dure, v. i., and cf. Indurate.]

  1. To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.

    Their verdure still endure.
    --Shak.

    He shall hold it [his house] fast, but it shall not endure.
    --Job viii. 15.

  2. 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 endure, or can thine hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with thee?
    --Ezek. xxii. 14.

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endured

vb. (en-past of: endure)

Usage examples of "endured".

Most of the passengers were awed by the spectacle, babbling about their expectations of the voyage, the hardships they had endured to save for the experience, their hopes for their destinations, anxieties about home-bound relatives.

The long happy weeks with Lord Artos had sufficiently restored my self-esteem so that I would not, could not, return to the wretched, bullied existence I had endured on the Corellia and be the butt of jokes and the recipient of spite.

Four longer days I never endured, filled with constant cuffs that added new bruises to barely healed ones and new obscenities to a list my limited experience had never wildly imagined.

Frill had a good look at the reactions: the marines, to a man, recoiled and tightened their hands on their weapons as the huge bear-like beings hunched to get through the portal and then stood up and stretched, to relieve the cramp they had endured on the small shuttle.

Lunzie half rose from her chair while the three who had endured the Thek conference favored her with smug expressions.

Her life made sense to her, not as a tragic series of losses, but as challenges met, changes endured and even enjoyed.

If prolonged, as I understand you have endured, it is the death of the past, the loss of friends and family as if in actual death--except that you are ahVe to know it.

Chaundra was not young anymore, and had endured some very hostile environments in his career.

Or their empathy with the world around them was too great to be endured and they abandoned reality.

They had endured hours of cerebral recording on the Goosegg under a variety of stimuli.

This V R & Holy Religious Inter pretation Group purportedly had only recently returned from the Eastern Cities of Faith, where Ponsit Prosit had endured "fasting meditations of great length and illumination.

Dorotea liked her to play with the older ones, and Amariyah endured activities like hide and seek-as long as no one tried to injure the bushes they hid behind or stepped on her garden-and jumping rope.

Whereupon she was tested for pitch, the severest evaluation of that faculty she'd ever endured, including estimates of vibrational errors and unnerving subliminal noises below 50 and above 18,000 cycles.

Having no viewport, she endured what seemed hours before she felt the power surge as the crystal drive was engaged.

Everyone in the room had settled down to what might be a long wait, one of many they endured with great patience.