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endure English

Meaning endure meaning

What does endure mean?
Definitions in simple English

endure Verb

— If you endure something difficult or painful, you experience it for a long time. We had to endure the climb to the top of the steep hill. — If something endures, it lasts for a long time. The church has endured for hundreds of years.

endure

— verb (= stick out, bear, tolerate, put up) 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 — verb (= brave) face and withstand with courage She braved the elements — verb (= survive, last, live, go) continue to live through hardship or adversity We went without water and food for 3 days These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents how long can a person last without food and water? — verb (= suffer) undergo or be subjected to He suffered the penalty Many saints suffered martyrdom — verb (= last) persist for a specified period of time The bad weather lasted for three days — verb (= wear) last and be usable This dress wore well for almost ten years — verb (= die hard) continue to exist These stories die hard The legend of Elvis endures

Synonyms endure synonyms

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endure English » English

bear tolerate suffer last put up with stand abide withstand sustain hold out persist continue undergo support persevere stomach put up be patient wear resist keep on brook survive keep hold take stick out remain patient go through digest weather maintain live experience cope take up suppress stay run prevail live through live on insist hold up go on equal brave out brave ail

Topics endure topics

What do people use endure to talk about?
Person Healthy Symptom of disease

Pain
Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Determined
Social behavior Behavior Good, moral

Patient
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Trouble

Suffer
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to trouble

Endure
States Time

Continue, persevere

Conjugation endure conjugation

How do you conjugate endure?

endure · verb

Examples endure examples

How do I use endure in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I can't endure the noise.
This bridge will not endure long.
I could hardly endure the pain.
His works will endure for centuries.
He can't endure my selfishness any more.
Even I can't endure it.
We can not endure violence.
The poor mother could not endure the unfilial behaviour of her son.
Would it be possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, perhaps we would endure our sadness with greater confidence than our pleasures.
To be loved is to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to stop existing, to love is to endure.
If you want to endure life, get prepared for death.
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.
You must endure the pain.
Can she endure a long trip?
I will endure.
How much more suffering can they endure?
I just can't endure it any more.
How can you endure such cold?

Movie subtitles

What is exactly the truth about your death that makes you endure so much suffering?
No matter how much I can pretend not to notice unjust things and just keep going, but I can't just endure this.
Must we endure it?
How many more of these detonations are we to endure?
Why do they endure everything?
You won't be able to endure it. He will break you.
But this not knowing, I cannot endure it.
One more like that, and you will force me. to endure Christianity.
The question is. how long will Christianity be forced to endure killings like that?
Unfortunately, the effects of such constraint on a man of his enormous energy were more than his mind could endure.
He could not endure to be long out of England. or to be separated from the picture, it was such a part of his life.
I can't just smile and endure the pain.
We're hungry but we must endure it.
But who can endure it?
There's no way this novice could endure that level of overwhelming loneliness.
How can you possibly endure this at all?!
You cannot endure that I love him.
One man, milord, would not endure such tyranny.
How much more of this nonsense have I got to endure?
Well, to continue would mean a rather trying relationship which I might be prepared to endure if my purposes weren't already achieved.
That, I would not endure.
That the soldier can endure.
And will endure more!
Kendrick will not endure it.
I could endure anything as long as you were with me.
I hope he will not endure very long as an unpaid supervisor.
But the great works he left behind him endure, to this day and beyond.
Iron it straightly! No matter how much I can pretend not to notice unjust things and just keep going, but I can't just endure this.
What enables a legionnaire to endure is his morale.
You've had to struggle and endure privation, but that's all over now.
I can't endure.
I'm amazed you can endure.
Who could endure this silly town with all the silly little people?
Whatever happens, you must endure it.
The farmer's only choice is to endure.
Alas, I blame you not, for you are mortal. and mortal eyes cannot endure the devil.
They do me wrong. and I will not endure it.
Now we're engaged in a civil war to determine whether any nation so conceived can long endure.
You endure but you have no courage.

News and current affairs

The next two or three months will determine whether peace breaks out, and, if it does, whether it will endure.
Every month, some 290 million children endure such suffering.
Lula claimed that this ad hoc approach gave Brazil a degree of flexibility lacking in other countries; but it was not cost-free, as he claimed, and the results did not endure.
As investment growth slows and export markets endure their unpredictable business cycles and protectionist moods, China will increasingly rely upon consumption for creation of jobs and income - and the service industry is where most consumption occurs.
But how much more pain will Europe have to endure before reason is restored?
As a result, the European Union will suffer something worse than a lost decade; it will endure a chronic divergence in which the surplus countries forge ahead and the deficit countries are dragged down by their accumulated debt burden.
Indeed, from the start, the architects of the Union's Constitutional Treaty never seriously expected that their draft would endure in the form in which they wrote it.
Hunger is not a new phenomenon, but as long as the rural poor endure it in silence, as they have for a long time, governments can comfortably ignore it.
But Germany had to go endure the huge costs and trauma of re-unification with East Germany.
My own feeling is that the bombardment by the media is of such violence that the credibility of a candidate cannot endure for more than a few weeks.
There are no guarantees that this will endure, but it is one of the region's most impressive achievements in recent years.
But there are good reasons to suspect that China's authoritarian advantage will not endure.
Japan seems condemned to endure chronic and pointless political trench warfare until some crisis forces a realignment of political parties along ideological and policy lines.
If American voters endorse those policies, the US shall have to live with the hostility of the world and endure a vicious cycle of escalating violence.
The poor in developing countries are again being made to endure the worst consequences of a crisis that they played no part in creating.
Let us be clear. What happens in Ukraine - not the financial standoff with Greece - will be the ultimate test of whether European and transatlantic unity endure.
What kind of recession would the US have to endure to bring inflation back to comfortable levels?
But Germany had to go endure the huge costs and trauma of re-unification with East Germany. Greece was hurt by the wars in the Balkans.
If the eurozone is to endure, a majority of its citizens, especially in Germany and France, must embrace the euro as their currency.
There is little doubt that the suffering that Greeks have had to endure for the last five years is mainly attributable to the fiscal profligacy and poor public management of a procession of Greek governments.
If the Schengen Area is to endure, it needs to evolve in a similar direction, establishing a common institution responsible for securing external borders, while reinforcing the framework for internal security.
But critics have found it difficult to demonstrate memory or other cognitive problems that endure beyond three months.
Greater austerity is being demanded from an economy that is on its knees, owing to the heftiest dose of austerity any country has ever had to endure in peacetime.
Her baby died, but she survived, despite terrible injuries, determined to speak out so that others would not have to endure the same ordeal.

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