endure.
To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.
Meaning & usage
To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.
The singer's popularity endured for decades.
To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
To last.
Our love will endure forever.
To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.
To suffer patiently.
He endured years of pain.
To indurate.
Where this word comes from
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.
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