endure

Meaning

Verb

• To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.
• To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
• To last.
• 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.
• To indurate.

Related

Similar words

• resist, survive, withstand
• accept, thole, withstand

Origin

• From Middle English enduren, from Old French endurer, from Latin indūrō ("to make hard"). Displaced Old English drēogan, which survives dialectally as dree.