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Enduring   /ɛndjˈʊrɪŋ/  /ɪndˈʊrɪŋ/   Listen
Enduring

adjective
1.
Unceasing.  Synonyms: abiding, imperishable.  "Imperishable truths"
2.
Patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble.  Synonym: long-suffering.  "A long-suffering and uncomplaining wife"



Endure

verb
(past & past part. endured; pres. part. enduring)
1.
Put up with something or somebody unpleasant.  Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate.  "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"
2.
Face and withstand with courage.  Synonyms: brave, brave out, weather.
3.
Continue to live through hardship or adversity.  Synonyms: go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on, survive.  "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?"
4.
Undergo or be subjected to.  Synonym: suffer.  "Many saints suffered martyrdom"  Antonym: enjoy.
5.
Last and be usable.  Synonyms: hold out, wear.
6.
Persist for a specified period of time.  Synonym: last.
7.
Continue to exist.  Synonyms: die hard, persist, prevail, run.  "The legend of Elvis endures"



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"Enduring" Quotes from Famous Books



... undertook the conquest of Florida after this, and took six hundred men with him for the purpose. They wandered through the Gulf States to the Mississippi, enduring much, and often forced to occupy the same room at night. De Soto in 1541 discovered the Mississippi River, thus adding to the ...
— Comic History of the United States • Bill Nye

... small imitators of the manner of Macaulay. He bade the historian first get sure facts, then tell them in due order, simply and without exaggeration or toil after fine writing; though he should aim not the less at an enduring grace given by Nature to the Art that does not stray from her, and simply speaks the highest ...
— Trips to the Moon • Lucian

... then he ventured to remark to Frances, with as much respect as tenderness, that it pained him to see her enduring privations injurious at her age, because she preferred incurring these devotional expenses. But what answer could he make to this excellent mother, when she replied with tears: "My child, 'tis for the salvation of your ...
— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue

... Wortley, spoke in favour of the measure. Several of the Irish members anticipated a great improvement in the Roman Catholic priesthood, and Lord John Russell, while he supported the motion, expressed a hope that it was the commencement of a series of measures which would unite the two countries in an enduring bond. On a division, the motion for leave to bring in the bill was carried by a large majority; but the measure, though destined to become law, was subsequently most strenuously opposed, both in and ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

... passed her on the platform. It was not of Aline Gardner's condescending congratulations, or Dorothy's ardent, impulsive good wishes. It was of one strange, unaccountable pang that spoiled this long-expected day for her and left in it a certain faint but enduring flavor of bitterness. ...
— Anne Of The Island • Lucy Maud Montgomery


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