endure
put up with something or somebody unpleasant
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,455 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,976 times across 191,579 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant also: digest, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate I cannot bear his constant criticismThe new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks
- face and withstand with courage also: weather, brave, brave out She braved the elements
- continue to live and avoid dying also: survive, last, live, live on, go, hold up We went without water and food for 3 daysThese superstitions survive in the backwaters of America
- undergo or be subjected to also: suffer He suffered the penaltyMany saints suffered martyrdom
- last and be usable also: wear, hold out This dress wore well for almost ten years
- persist for a specified period of time also: last The bad weather lasted for three days
endure in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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But there are some insults which a man of heart cannot endure.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Must merited fame endure time’s wrong— Glory’s ripe grape wizen up to a raisin?
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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Why should the vest on him allure, Which I could not on me endure?
Poems Household Edition · Ralph Waldo Emerson · Chapter 1
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Pannychis covered her head at last, resolved to endure whatever the Fates had in store for her.
The Satyricon — Volume 01: Introduction · 20-66 Petronius Arbiter · Chapter 1
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The young sovereign then had to endure a long and grave discourse from a fat drone bee who did not understand himself.
Piccolissima · Adélaïde de Montgolfier · Chapter 1