endure

Reading level: medium

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. verb put up with something or somebody unpleasant
  2. verb face and withstand with courage
  3. verb continue to live through hardship or adversity

Etymology

From Middle English enduren, from Old French endurer, from Latin indūrō (“to make hard”). Displaced Old English drēogan, which survives dialectally as dree. Doublet of dure.

In classic literature

Synonyms

digest, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up

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