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endure is a verb meaning "put up with something or somebody unpleasant". It carries 7 recorded senses.
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”
continue to live and avoid dying
“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?”
“One crash victim died, the other lived”
undergo or be subjected to
“He suffered the penalty”
“Many saints suffered martyrdom”
continue to exist
“These stories die hard”
“The legend of Elvis endures”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for endure come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.