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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
endure
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an abiding/enduring/lasting memory (=that you will always have)
▪ The children's abiding memory of their father is of his patience and gentleness.
an enduring myth (=that has continued for a long time)
▪ The idea that Kennedy was shot by the CIA is one of the enduring myths of our time.
continuing/enduring popularity
▪ Today, the novel enjoys enduring popularity and ranks among the USA's top-selling books.
endure an ordeal
▪ In his book, he describes how he endured the ordeal of prison life.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
long
▪ Here, you might think, is a piece of the past that will not long endure.
▪ Neither pope nor president can long endure without such cleansing.
▪ Raised in London, he suffered polio in childhood and endured long spells in hospital.
▪ They made each other miserable, locking wills, disbelieving that the other party could long endure a war of emotional attrition.
▪ Few among mortals could have long endured that unchanging brilliancy of light, but few had ever found their way thither.
most
▪ Thus the Premiership's most enduring fairytale has reached a dark denouement worthy of the brothers Grimm.
▪ But the most enduring treasure is the city itself.
▪ But it has proven among the most enduring.
▪ The movie San Francisco has given this resiliency its most enduring, sentimental, and apolitical treatment.
■ NOUN
death
▪ The others were beheaded first; her executioner botched her beheading and left her to endure a three-day death.
▪ He went to the Games in 1992 as he endured the death of his father.
hardship
▪ We have endured hardship in order to provide continuous feedback.
▪ Born in about 570, Muhammad endured many hardships in the first forty years of his life.
▪ Working-class women who endured hardship and self-sacrifice and survived with something of themselves still intact.
▪ Wilson speeches often praise the gumption of illegal immigrants who take risks and endure hardships to better themselves and their families.
▪ Nineteenth-century irrigation pioneers were better suited to endure hardships than settlers who struggled to survive on Federal Reclamation projects after 1902.
▪ His own soldiers respected him because he was always prepared to endure hardships.
▪ She has had to endure hardships and humiliations.
life
▪ The old, once old, endured their lives and missed their children.
▪ She married him, had two children in two years and, she says, endured a hard life.
▪ But for both of them, in different ways, there was now an enduring chill in their lives.
▪ While she does not want to die, neither does she want to endure a long life in prison.
month
▪ But that hurt is nothing compared to what the powerful blond-haired midfielder has endured these past few months.
▪ He felt weak, like some one who has endured months of broken nights.
▪ This I endured for several months, having no spirit even to complain.
▪ We write as partners in a practice which is presently enduring a three month interregnum.
▪ The symptoms she endured varied from month to month, worsening or improving according to the circumstances of her life at the time.
pain
▪ It wasn't only the pain fitzAlan must be enduring that worried her.
▪ Her feelings of desperation were made worse by the nearly constant lower back pain she endured.
woman
▪ Being abused is the humiliating situation for both men and women so do not endure this punishment.
▪ I know there are many women who endure similar treatment from men who profess to love them.
▪ Working-class women who endured hardship and self-sacrifice and survived with something of themselves still intact.
years
▪ The £2 million former West Ham man has endured an up-and-down four years on Merseyside.
▪ Johnny endured in its brief years in Hartford, Conn.&038;.
▪ A name that will endure hundreds of years into the future.
■ VERB
force
▪ The red card was rescinded but only after the keeper had been forced to endure several days of shame and regret.
▪ Really, I think I should have strangled the man if forced to endure his companionship aboard a small vessel!
▪ We in the Conservative Party have no truck with that style of gutter journalism which we were forced to endure last Sunday.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Many cancer patients have to endure a great deal of pain.
▪ Scott's popularity endured well beyond his death in 1832.
▪ She endured a barrage of open abuse and racism during her time at college.
▪ She has endured ten years of painful back operations.
▪ The people in this country have endured almost a decade of economic hardship.
▪ They were lost in the mountains for ten days, enduring hunger, thirst, and intense cold.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A pied-piper's trail of opportunity discarded, needless abasement endured, and a grievous ransom paid in blood and treasure.
▪ Finally a day came when they could endure no longer.
▪ It was slavery in all but name, and names meant little to those who had to endure it.
▪ Neither pope nor president can long endure without such cleansing.
▪ None of these authors focuses on why marriage, having endured so long, is now in such a mess.
▪ Working-class women who endured hardship and self-sacrifice and survived with something of themselves still intact.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Endure

Endure \En*dure"\, v. t.

  1. To remain firm under; to sustain; to undergo; to support without breaking or yielding; as, metals endure a certain degree of heat without melting; to endure wind and weather.

    Both were of shining steel, and wrought so pure, As might the strokes of two such arms endure.
    --Dryden.

  2. To bear with patience; to suffer without opposition or without sinking under the pressure or affliction; to bear up under; to put up with; to tolerate.

    I will no longer endure it.
    --Shak.

    Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake.
    --2 Tim. ii. 10.

    How can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people?
    --Esther viii. 6.

  3. To harden; to toughen; to make hardy. [Obs.]

    Manly limbs endured with little ease.
    --Spenser.

    Syn: To last; remain; continue; abide; brook; submit to; suffer.

Endure

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
endure

late 14c., "to undergo or suffer" (especially without breaking); also "to continue in existence," from Old French endurer (12c.) "make hard, harden; bear, tolerate; keep up, maintain," from Latin indurare "make hard," in Late Latin "harden (the heart) against," from in- (see in- (2)) + durare "to harden," from durus "hard," from PIE *dru-ro-, from root *deru- "be firm, solid, steadfast" (see true).\n

\nReplaced the important Old English verb dreogan (past tense dreag, past participle drogen), which survives in dialectal dree. Related: Endured; endures.

Wiktionary
endure

vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships. 2 (context transitive English) To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant. 3 (context intransitive English) To last. 4 To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out. 5 (context transitive English) To suffer patiently.

WordNet
endure

  1. v. put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage" [syn: digest, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up]

  2. face or endure with courage; "She braved the elements" [syn: weather, brave, brave out]

  3. continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The racecar driver lived through several very serious accidents" [syn: survive, last, live, live on, go, hold up, hold out]

  4. undergo or be subjected to; "He suffered the penalty"; "Many saints suffered martyrdom" [syn: suffer] [ant: enjoy]

  5. last and be usable; "This dress wore well for almost ten years" [syn: wear, hold out]

  6. persist or be long; in time; "The bad weather lasted for three days" [syn: last]

  7. continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures" [syn: prevail, persist, die hard, run]

Wikipedia
Endure

Endure is a 2010 crime thriller film directed and written by Joe O'Brien. It stars Judd Nelson, Devon Sawa, Tom Arnold and Joey Lauren Adams. The story revolves around a police detective investigating a photo of a female victim who is gagged and restrained to a tree, which is found inside a car involved in a fatal car crash.

Usage examples of "endure".

His pastorate would be the longest in the annals of the parish, lasting forty-five years, and the friendship between Adams and Wibird, equally enduring.

That the Universe might endure throughout an aera at all commensurate with the grandeur of its component material portions and with the high majesty of its spiritual purposes, it was necessary that the original atomic diffusion be made to so inconceivable an extent as to be only not infinite.

Communist government in Afghanistan gained power in 1978 but was unable to establish enduring control.

As the personal quality of Agassiz was the greatest of his powers, and as my life was greatly influenced by my immediate and enduring affection for him, I am tempted to set forth some incidents which show that my swift devotion to my new-found master was not due to the accidents of the situation, or to any boyish fancy.

November, 1917, are the details gathered from the Alsatian prisoners themselves of the treatment their compatriots endure in the German Army.

On some particular occasions, when the magistrates were exasperated by some personal motives of interest or resentment, the rules of prudence, and perhaps of decency, to overturn the altars, to pour out imprecations against the emperors, or to strike the judge as he sat on his tribunal, it may be presumed, that every mode of torture which cruelty could invent, or constancy could endure, was exhausted on those devoted victims.

Whereas the Lutherans had stood for passive obedience and the Anabaptists for revolutionary communism, the Calvinists appealed to the independent middle classes and gave them not only the enthusiasm to endure martyrdom but also--what the others had lacked--the will and the power to resist tyranny by force.

Lena backed out, claiming too much work, so Andi was left to endure it alone.

It is evident that in such cases, in animals as well as among human beings, the memory of agony endured creates a mental condition of terror and fear.

There were also Vilmos, paramount of storm giants, Ottar, jarl of frost giants, and all the other Sons of Annam, the eternal monarchs born of Othea and destined to rule the races of giant-kind as long as Ostoria endured.

Her heart, trained to endure on near anoxic blood, continued to beat, her brain to think.

The new administration scrapped the antiballistic missile treaty and endured a mini-crisis with China over the collision of a Chinese fighter with a U.

Delisle mentions a young person who during a whole year passed pieces of ascarides and tenia, during which time he could not endure music.

When asps attached to a certain organ built up to a certain bulk, the host was unable to endure any more accretion.

I have not endured two hundred and forty years of tapasya in the fetid swamps of the Bhayanak-van just to be tricked by a shape-shifting Asura such as yourself.