Endure
[ɪn'djʊə;en-;-'djɔː] or [ɪn'dʊr]
Definition
(v. i.) To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.
(v. i.) To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To harden; to toughen; to make hardy.
Typist: Mag
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Bear, sustain, support.[2]. Suffer, undergo, experience, go through.[3]. Brook, tolerate, abide, submit to, put up with, bear with, take patiently or easily.
v. n. [1]. Remain, continue, last, abide, be permanent, be durable.[2]. Bear, suffer, submit, resign one's self, be patient, take it patiently, take it easily or quietly, not fret about it.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See LAST_and_TOLERATE]
Checker: Mario
Definition
v.t. to remain firm under: to bear without sinking: to tolerate.—v.i. to remain firm: to last.—adj. Endur′able that can be endured or borne.—n. Endur′ableness.—adv. Endur′ably.—ns. Endur′ance state of enduring or bearing: continuance: a suffering patiently without sinking: patience; Endur′er.—adv. Endur′ingly.
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Examples
- I say that these monstrous laws of yours will bring a curse upon the land--God will not let such wickedness endure. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I will endure thy sun's scorching rays, O God of Mercy! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- And how short while would these rabble villains stand to endure your encounter! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Then said Mr. Love-lust, I could never endure him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I don't often show my feelings, I make it a principle to endure everything in silence; it's a wife's hard lot, and I bear it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- What I have endured, and do endure here, is insupportable. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He is slender, not tall, wiry, and looks as if he could endure any amount of physical exercise. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- My application was of longer endurance; but it was not so severe whilst it endured. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The exquisite pain and suffering endured previous to the use of anaesthetics often caused death by exhaustion. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- You don't know what she endured, sir, said honest Dobbin with a tremor in his voice, and I hope and trust you will be reconciled to her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- What I have endured, and do endure here, is insupportable. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Only those who know of the suffering endured in former times can fully appreciate the decrease in pain brought about by the proper use of narcotics. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Being a quiet man, he endured it better than most men would. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Eggs and nuts are cracked without being crushed, and the power exerted and the strain endured automatically recorded. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Jane, I am not a gentle-tempered man--you forget that: I am not long- enduring; I am not cool and dispassionate. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- From the delicate hair spring of a watch to the massive armor plate of a battleship, it finds endless applications, and is nature’s most enduring gift to man--abundant, cheap, and lasting. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Nevertheless, from the first writings onward a new sort of tradition, an enduring and immortal tradition, began in the minds of men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Her figure was light and airy; and, though capable of enduring great fatigue, she appeared the most fragile creature in the world. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Oh, don't say that; when I'm enduring it! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- In a well-known early Buddhist dialogue there is a destructive analysis of the idea of an enduring individual soul. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Yet it was not until the nineteenth century that the marvelous change was made from the short-lived candle to the more enduring oil lamp. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Oh, take me to your heart, my husband, for my love was founded on a rock, and it endures! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Much of that work was sound and still endures, much was experimental and has been undone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Whatever changes he endures, his several parts are still connected by the relation of causation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- No fixed law seems to determine the length of time during which any single species or any single genus endures. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Assuredly a most benignant power built up the majestic fabric we inhabit, and framed the laws by which it endures. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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