Definition of endure

"endure" in the verb sense

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

put up with something or somebody unpleasant

"I cannot bear his constant criticism"

"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. weather, endure, brave, brave out

face and withstand with courage

"She braved the elements"

3. survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out

continue to live and avoid dying

"We went without water and food for 3 days"

"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?" "One crash victim died, the other lived"

4. suffer, endure

undergo or be subjected to

"He suffered the penalty"

"Many saints suffered martyrdom"

5. wear, hold out, endure

last and be usable

"This dress wore well for almost ten years"

6. last, endure

persist for a specified period of time

"The bad weather lasted for three days"

7. prevail, persist, die hard, run, endure

continue to exist

"These stories die hard"

"The legend of Elvis endures"

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Quotations for endure

No falsehood can endure
Touch of celestial temper. [ Milton ]

Great souls endure in silence. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

A courage to endure and to obey. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Nought may endure but mutability. [ Shelley ]

To endure is greater than to dare. [ Thackeray ]

Galled horses cannot endure the comb. [ Proverb ]

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As, to be hated, needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace. [ Alexander Pope ]

Since you will buckle fortune on my back;
To bear her burden whe'r I will or no,
I must have patience to endure the load. [ William Shakespeare ]

No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure. [ Shelley ]

Existence may be borne, and the deep root
Of life and sufferance make its firm abode
In bare and desolate bosoms: mute
The camel labors with the heaviest load.
And the wolf dies in silence: Not bestowed
In vain should such examples be; if they.
Things of ignoble or of savage mood,
Endure and shrink not, we of nobler clay
May temper it to bear - it is but for a day. [ Byron ]

Few there are that will endure a true friend. [ Proverb ]

Those edges soonest turn, that are most keen;
A sober moderation stands secure.
No violent extremes endure. [ Aleyn ]

The love of praise, however concealed by art
Reigns, more or less, and glows, in every heart:
The proud, to gain it, toils on toils endure;
The modest shun it, but to make it sure. [ Young ]

With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure. [ Mrs. Osgood ]

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. [ Proverb ]

He that will not bear the itch must endure the smart. [ Proverb ]

The Alphabet Of Success

Attend carefully to details.
Be prompt in all things.
Consider well, then decide positively.
Dare to do right, fear to do wrong.
Endure trials patiently.
Fight life's battles bravely.
Go not into the society of the vicious.
Hold your integrity sacred.
Injure not another's reputation.
Join hands only with the virtuous.
Keep your mind free from evil thoughts.
Lie not for any consideration.
Make few special acquaintances.
Never try to appear what you are not.
Observe good manners.
Pay your debts promptly.
Question not the verity of a friend.
Respect the desires of your parents.
Sacrifice money rather than principle.
Touch not, taste not, handle not intoxicating drinks.
Use your leisure for improvement.
Venture not upon the threshold of wrong.
Watch carefully over your passions.
Xtend to everyone a kindly greeting.
Yield not to discouragement.
Zealously labor for the right, and success is certain. [ Ladies Home Journal ]

That which was bitter to endure may be sweet to remember. [ Proverb ]

He that shall endure unto the end the same shall be saved. [ Bible ]

He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of the hens. [ Proverb ]

Men must endure their going hence. Even as their coming hither. [ William Shakespeare ]

Suspense, of all the torments, is the most difficult to endure. [ A. de Musset ]

Misfortune cannot endure wisdom, but wisdom can endure misfortune. [ Bodenstedt ]

One alleviation in misfortune is to endure and submit to necessity. [ Seneca ]

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. [ William Shakespeare ]

Bear and endure; you have borne much heavier misfortunes than these. [ Ovid ]

What can we not endure. When pains are lessen'd by the hope of cure? [ Nabb ]

Bear and endure; this sorrow will one day prove to be for your good. [ Ovid ]

To endure is the first and most necessary lesson a child has to learn. [ Rousseau ]

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life. [ Lucan ]

God gives strength to bear a great deal, if we only strive ourselves to endure. [ Hans Andersen ]

There dwelleth in the sinlessness of youth a sweet rebuke that vice may not endure. [ Mrs. Embury ]

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so. [ Rochefoucauld ]

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who, can endure a wretched life. [ Martial ]

It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy. [ Saadi ]

Love of men cannot be bought by cash payment; and without love men cannot endure to be together. [ Carlyle ]

For no falsehood can endure touch of celestial temper, but returns of force to its own likeness. [ Milton ]

We can but ill endure, among so many sad realities, to rob anticipation of its pleasant visions. [ Henry Giles ]

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune. [ Southey ]

To endure is the first thing a child ought to learn, and that which he will have most need to know. [ Rousseau ]

We could not endure solitude, were it not for the powerful companionship of hope, or of some unseen one. [ Jean Paul ]

Most persons are disposed to expend more than they can afford, and to indulge more than they can endure. [ Mme. de Puisieux ]

We must endure our doom as easily as may be, knowing as we do, that the power of necessity is irresistible. [ Aeschylus ]

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him wJth patience. [ A. Lang ]

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally occasion ourselves. [ Beaconsfield ]

In a sound sleep the soul goes home to recruit her strength, which could not else endure the wear and tear of life. [ Rahel ]

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back. [ Simms ]

Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over doth endure the pains of evil destiny. [ Sir W. Davenant ]

There is a spirit of resistance implanted by the Deity in the breast of man, proportioned to the size of the wrongs he is destined to endure. [ C. J. Fox ]

Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - Ah ! there is the sting of life. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one; a great deal may arouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure. [ Lord Greville ]

There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently, however they have writ the style of gods, and make a pish at chance and sufferance. [ William Shakespeare ]

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power. [ Seneca ]

Superstition is in its death-lair; the last agonies may endure for decades or for centuries; but it carries the iron in its heart, and will not vex the earth any more. [ Carlyle ]

Many are not able to suffer and endure prosperity; it is like the light of the sun to a weak eye, - glorious indeed in itself, but not proportioned to such an instrument. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Griefs are like the beings that endure them - the little ones are the most clamorous and noisy; those of older growth and greater magnitude are generally tranquil, and sometimes silent. [ Chatfield ]

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported by the latter. [ Fielding ]

Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex? [ Thackeray ]

I armed her against the censures of the world; showed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they could not bring us to enjoy life, they would at least teach us to endure it. [ Goldsmith ]

Darwin remarks that we are less dazzled by the light at waking, if we have been dreaming of visible objects. Happy are those who have here dreamt of a higher vision! They will the sooner be able to endure the glories of the world to come. [ Novalis ]

The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands. [ Goethe ]

There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity. [ Cicero ]

Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain! [ Thackeray ]

The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain. Their happiness consists entirely in present enjoyment. [ Chalmers ]

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The word endure is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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