endure
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1 to tolerate hardship (v.) B2 Upper Intermediateto experience something painful or difficult for a long time without giving up.
to suffer through or tolerate a painful or difficult situation without yielding. Often used transitively with an object representing the hardship.
ExampleThe hikers had to endure freezing temperatures and heavy rain for three days.
ExampleThe prisoners of war were forced to endure months of isolation and physical deprivation before the diplomatic negotiations finally secured their release.
UsageWhen used transitively, it takes a direct object representing the suffering or condition.
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2 to last over time (v.) C1 Advanced Formalto continue to exist for a long time.
to remain in existence; to last or persist through time. This sense is typically intransitive.
ExampleThe traditions of the village have endured for hundreds of years.
ExampleDespite the collapse of the empire, many of its legal principles have endured in the modern judicial systems of Europe.
UsageUsually functions as an intransitive verb without a direct object.
Etymology tree ▲ Proto-Indo-European *h₁en- Proto-Indo-European *h₁en- Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Italic *dūros Latin dūrūs Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin dūrō 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.