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ENDURE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put up with something or somebody unpleasant

Example:

She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "endure" is one way to...):

allow; countenance; let; permit (consent to, give permission)

Verb group:

suffer (experience (emotional) pain)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "endure"):

accept; live with; swallow (tolerate or accommodate oneself to)

hold still for; stand for (tolerate or bear)

bear up (endure cheerfully)

take lying down (suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively)

take a joke (listen to a joke at one's own expense)

sit out (endure to the end)

pay (bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot endure Sue

Derivation:

endurance (the power to withstand hardship or stress)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Undergo or be subjected to

Example:

Many saints suffered martyrdom

Synonyms:

endure; suffer

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "endure" is one way to...):

experience; go through; see (undergo or live through a difficult experience)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "endure"):

die (suffer or face the pain of death)

tolerate (have a tolerance for a poison or strong drug or pathogen or environmental condition)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Continue to live and avoid dying

Example:

One crash victim died, the other lived

Synonyms:

endure; go; hold out; hold up; last; live; live on; survive

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

"Endure" entails doing...:

be; live (have life, be alive)

Verb group:

exist; live; subsist; survive (support oneself)

be; live (have life, be alive)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "endure"):

hold up; hold water; stand up (resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.)

perennate (survive from season to season, of plants)

live out (live out one's life; live to the end)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

endurance (a state of surviving; remaining alive)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Continue to exist

Example:

The legend of Elvis endures

Synonyms:

die hard; endure; persist; prevail; run

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "endure" is one way to...):

continue (exist over a prolonged period of time)

Verb group:

run (occur persistently)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "endure"):

carry over (transfer or persist from one stage or sphere of activity to another)

reverberate (have a long or continuing effect)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 5

Meaning:

Persist for a specified period of time

Example:

The bad weather lasted for three days

Synonyms:

endure; last

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "endure" is one way to...):

measure (have certain dimensions)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "endure"):

run; run for (extend or continue for a certain period of time)

endure; hold out; wear (last and be usable)

drag on; drag out (last unnecessarily long)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 6

Meaning:

Last and be usable

Example:

This dress wore well for almost ten years

Synonyms:

endure; hold out; wear

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "endure" is one way to...):

endure; last (persist for a specified period of time)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Something ----s something

Sense 7

Meaning:

Face and withstand with courage

Example:

She braved the elements

Synonyms:

brave; brave out; endure; weather

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "endure" is one way to...):

defy; hold; hold up; withstand (resist or confront with resistance)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

My travels were long and the sufferings I endured intense.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Each struck fire from the other's shield, and each endured the jarring shock as though welded to the horse beneath him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I cannot readily forget the agonies which I endured some years ago through neglecting this precaution.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In five minutes he died. My God! how he died! But my heart was flint, for he endured nothing which my innocent darling had not felt before him.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A rotation rate of 90 hours is much slower than what is predicted for HD 80606b, puzzling astronomers, and adding to the enduring mystique of hot Jupiters.

(Investigating the Mystery of Migrating 'Hot Jupiters', NASA)

An enduring mystery regarding the origin of life is how biology could have arisen from non-biological chemical processes.

(Cyanide Compounds Discovered in Meteorites May Hold Clues to the Origin of Life, NASA)

This seems so unusual, considering the presence of Saturn and Pluto, but Neptune will provide the message that only love is important, and it endures.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In the Southeastern U.S., salt marshes have endured massive grass die-offs as a result of intense drought, which can affect everything from fisheries to water quality.

(Biodiversity in salt marshes builds climate resilience, NSF)

A disorder characterized by an enduring pattern of unstable self-image and mood together with volatile interpersonal relationships, self-damaging impulsivity, recurrent suicidal threats or gestures and/or self-mutilating behavior.

(Borderline personality disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by an enduring pattern of behavior based on the pervasive belief that the motives of others are malevolent and that they should not be trusted.

(Paranoid Personality Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)