Word Finder - endure

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To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.

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The singer's popularity endured for decades.

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To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.

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To last.

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Our love will endure forever.

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To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.

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To suffer patiently.

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He endured years of pain.

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To indurate.

He learned to endure hunger and cold.

How could she endure the ride?

I cannot endure any more, he said, and left the room.

It was questionable, even in October 1904, whether she could endure the drain of men and money, if it were prolonged much further.

I can only endure so much time with my sassy friend Jean.

Yet, for whatever reason, she had been willing to endure her fear alone.

In a direct competitive test the presence of 3.25% of nickel increased nearly sixfold the number of rotations which a steel shaft would endure before breaking.

Happy are all ye that endure the great tribulation which is to come..

For a long time he could not endure the thought of destroying her, because he regarded her as an indispensable member of his "Accord," wherein she was to supply the place of Austria, whom circumstances had temporarily detached from the Russian alliance.

The fact that this theme is commonly called the " Ring-motif " is a glaring instance of what Wagner has had to endure from his friends.

He abounded in kindliness and generosity, and if there was anything especially difficult for him to endure, it was the sight of human suffering, as was shown on the night at Shiloh, where he lay out of doors in the icy rain rather than stay in a comfortable room where the surgeons were at work.

How did we endure the monotony?

One had to wait and endure.

Love that can endure is built on established trust.

Wycliffe's later attacks upon the papacy had been given point by the return of the popes to Rome in 1377 and the opening of the Great Schism which was to endure for forty years.

The persecutions it had to endure did not hinder its extension.

What those women had to endure.

They cannot endure captivity, dying in the course of two or three days, even when kept in capacious tanks.

The girdle can be seen as adding insult to injury and some might rather endure the discomfort of the hernia than add the embarrassment of the girdle.

These individuals all endure the changes occurring with the disease and must deal with the results.

During that time, the castaways will endure many hardships, compete in competitions to win rewards and immunity and ultimately vote off fellow cast mates one-by-one until just one person emerges as the sole survivor.

Below are a few of MTV's most popular programs, and why they continue to endure.

Thus a very strong heart, although it may be useful to its possessor for many years, driving the blood rapidly through the vessels, and supplying all his tissues with such abundant nutriment as to enable him to endure great exertion, mental or bodily, may in the end cause death by bursting a vessel in the brain, which might have resisted the pressure of a feebler circulation for years longer.

She despatched to France a special envoy, the bishop of Dumblane, with instructions setting forth at length the unparalleled and hitherto ill-requited services and merits of Bothwell, and the necessity of compliance at once with his passion and with the unanimous counsel of the nation - a people who would endure the rule of no foreign consort, and whom none of their own countrymen were so competent to control, alike by wisdom and by valour, as the incomparable subject of her choice.

A training schedule will help you build up strength in your lower body to handle the stress it will endure.

Bras simply don't stay on anyone long enough in the dressing room to endure much compromise.

Brennus killed himself, "unable to endure the pain of his wounds," says Justin; more probably determined not to return home defeated.

A few years after the establishment of the "Abode of Love," a peculiarly gross scandal, in which Prince and one of his female followers were involved, led to the secession of some of his most faithful friends, who were unable any longer to endure what they regarded as the amazing mixture of blasphemy and immorality offered for their acceptance.

But it would be more than usually rash to prophesy that this exceptional popularity will endure.

In the earlier stages of Lollardy, when the court and the clergy managed to bring Lollards before ecclesiastical tribunals backed by the civil power, the accused generally recanted and showed no disposition to endure martyrdom for their opinions.

Pippin gave them back to Pope Stephen IL, and by thisfamousdonation founded that temporal power of the popes which was to endure until 1870.

The " free "Frisians could not endure this Frankish outpost on their borders.

Bob has been a major voice in helping us to understand the vagaries weather investigators must endure.

But how could a top four global media colossus have reached this catastrophic state and endure such a financial thrashing?

This is a kind of injustice I cannot patiently endure.

The Greek mind was opposed to the union; the acquiescence of the Byzantine emperors was but an ephemeral expedient of their foreign policy; and the peace between the Latins and Greeks settled on Byzantine soil could not endure for long.

He cannot endure the notion that Buonaparte is negotiating on equal terms with all the sovereigns of Europe and particularly with our own, the grandson of the Great Catherine!

He seemed carefully to cherish within himself the gloomy mood which alone enabled him to endure his position.

These cases are excellent for plane travel, as luggage tends to endure much stress during airport transitions.

The next time your child complains about having to endure being covered head-to-toe in sunscreen before you head to the beach or pool, you can explain why sunscreen is necessary.

One smote the threshold with an axe, another with a pestle, the third swept it with a broom - three symbols of culture (for trees were hewn down with the axe, grain pounded with the pestle, and the fruits of the field swept up with the broom) which Silvanus could not endure.

Increased direct effect of solar radiation compensates for the cold of the nights, and in the few spots where plants have been found in flower up to a height of 12,000 ft., nothing has indicated that the processes of vegetation were arrested by the severe cold which they must sometimes endure.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

Under his influence literature became less suited to the popular taste, more especially addressed to a limited and cultivated class, but at the same time more truly expressive of what was greatest and most worthy to endure in the national sentiment and traditions.

He left the country in a state of unexampled material prosperity, free from the majority of the international fetters with which it was bound when he took up his task in 1883, and with the legitimate expectation that the work he had done would endure.

But Thorbecke's life-work will endure, and the Dutch constitution of 1887 practically embodied his principles, as laid down in the constitution of 1848.

But the Tamim of Iiarith could not endure the supremacy of the Azd.

Tahir, fearing lest the caliph, not being able to endure the sight of the murderer of his brother, should change his mind towards him, contrived to get himself appointed governor of Khorasan.

In April 1787 Madison had written a paper, The Vices of the Political System of the United States, and from his study of confederacies, ancient and modern, later summed up in numbers 17, 18, and 19 of The Federalist, he had concluded that no confederacy could long endure if it acted upon states only and not directly upon individuals.

No modern reader can endure to toil through the Intellectual System; its only interest is the light it throws upon the state of religious thought.