HOW TO PRONOUNCE
endure
/ɪnˈd(j)ʊɹ/
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What does endure mean?
verb
- To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.
- To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
- To last.
More meanings (3)
verb
- 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.
- (obsolete) To indurate.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɪnˈd(j)ʊɹ/
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His conscience could not endure any more of Amy’s grateful happiness, and his jealousy could bear no more of the other distress.
They were desirous, however, of ascertaining how this little animal, least of all others subject to giddiness, would endure this experimental voyage.
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On the one hand we have great permanent beliefs, which endure for several centuries, and on which an entire civilisation may rest.
Men were obliged to endure this crying evil for full six months, wearied to desperation, and made sea-sick on the dry land.
Pompey himself would not endure to see him, but to deprecate the divine jealousy, sent it away to the city of Sinope.