Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to endure
Participle: endured
Gerund: enduring
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | endure |
| you | endure |
| he;she;it | endures |
| we | endure |
| you | endure |
| they | endure |
Perfect
| I | have endured |
| you | have endured |
| he;she;it | has endured |
| we | have endured |
| you | have endured |
| they | have endured |
Past
| I | endured |
| you | endured |
| he;she;it | endured |
| we | endured |
| you | endured |
| they | endured |
Pluperfect
| I | had endured |
| you | had endured |
| he;she;it | had endured |
| we | had endured |
| you | had endured |
| they | had endured |
Future
| I | will endure |
| you | will endure |
| he;she;it | will endure |
| we | will endure |
| you | will endure |
| they | will endure |
Future Perfect
| I | will have endured |
| you | will have endured |
| he;she;it | will have endured |
| we | will have endured |
| you | will have endured |
| they | will have endured |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | endure |
| you | endure |
| he;she;it | endure |
| we | endure |
| you | endure |
| they | endure |
Perfect
| I | have endured |
| you | have endured |
| he;she;it | have endured |
| we | have endured |
| you | have endured |
| they | have endured |
Imperfect
| I | endured |
| you | endured |
| he;she;it | endured |
| we | endured |
| you | endured |
| they | endured |
Pluperfect
| I | had endured |
| you | had endured |
| he;she;it | had endured |
| we | had endured |
| you | had endured |
| they | had endured |
Conditional
Present
| I | would endure |
| you | would endure |
| he;she;it | would endure |
| we | would endure |
| you | would endure |
| they | would endure |
Perfect
| I | would have endured |
| you | would have endured |
| he;she;it | would have endured |
| we | would have endured |
| you | would have endured |
| they | would have endured |
Imperative
| you | endure |
| we | Let's endure |
| you | endure |
Verbs conjugated like 'endure'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'endure'
endue,
enmure,
ensure,
enure,
indure,
adure,
censure,
coendure,
dure,
educe,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to continue despite obstacles
- persevere
- to tolerate something
- tolerate
- to last
- persist
- to persist steadfastly in pursuit of an undertaking
- abide, bear up, carry on, continue, follow up, hang in there, hold on, hold out, hold the line, hold up, persevere, persist, stay, stay the distance, stick by one's guns, stick with
- to continue to exist
- abide, aby, go on, hold on, last, live, persist, remain, stick, stick it out, stick out
- to allow something unpleasant to exist or occur
- abear, abide, aby, accept, allow, bear, bide, brook, dree, forbear, go along with, live with, pass, pocket, pouch, put up with, stand, stick, stomach, suffer, swallow, take sitting down, tolerate, thole, undergang, undergo
- support
- survive, bear, brave, experience, face, withstand, suffer
- experience
- take, allow, brook, permit, submit
- remain
- hold, continue, exist, last, abide, persist, stay, prevail
Antonyms
- to replace something with something else
- abide, last, remain, stay, switch
- support
- counteract, block, check, defeat
- experience
- inexperience, immaturity, greenness, rawness
- remain
- leave, depart, go, move
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1382, from O.Fr.
endurer, from L.
indurare "make hard," in L.L. "harden (the heart) against," from
in- "in" +
durare "to harden," from
durus "hard," from PIE
*deru- "be firm, solid." Replaced the important O.E. verb
dreogan, which survives in dial.
dree.
2. Etymology tree
3. Latin indūrō
4. Latin indūrāreder.
5. Old French endurerbor.
6. Middle English enduren
7. English endure
8. 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. See: Middle English '
enduren', Old French '
endurer', Latin '
indūrō'.
Sample Sentences
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There I remained until I got better: suffering, whenever I was recommended to eat anything, an amount of anguish only second to that which is said to be endured by the apparently drowned, in the process of restoration to life. One gentleman on board had a letter of introduction to me from a mutual friend in London. He sent it below with his card, on the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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‘Another article from home was now given her, and she began to look much interested; she examined the stranger much closer, and gave me to understand that she knew she came from Hanover; she even endured her caresses, but would leave her with indifference at the slightest signal. The distress of the mother was now painful to behold; for, although she had feared that she should not be recognised, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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I never thought that going back to England, returning to all who are dear to me, and to pursuits that have insensibly grown to be a part of my nature, I could have felt so much sorrow as I endured, when I parted at last, on board this ship, with the friends who had accompanied me from this city. I never thought the name of any place, so far away and so lately known, could ever associate [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Then, when I felt how near to my Creator I was standing, the first effect, and the enduring one—instant and lasting—of the tremendous spectacle, was Peace. Peace of Mind, tranquillity, calm recollections of the Dead, great thoughts of Eternal Rest and Happiness: nothing of gloom or [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] that odious spirit which, if it could have had full scope and sway upon the earth, must have blasted and made barren the imaginations of the greatest men, and left them, in their power of raising up enduring images before their fellow-creatures yet unborn, no better than the beasts: that, in these very broad-brimmed hats and very sombre coats—in stiff-necked, solemn-visaged piety, in short, no matter [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] renegade son of Vermont—(begging your pardon),—who had gone through a regular apprenticeship in hardness and brutality and taken his degree to be admitted to practice. My mother never could endure him, nor I; but he obtained an entire ascendency over my father; and this man was the absolute despot of the estate.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ What's the case now ? ” asked Augustine. “ The case is, that I cannot be plagued with this child, any longer ! It's past all bearing; flesh and blood cannot endure it ! Here, I locked her up, and gave her a hymn to study; and what does she do, but spy out where I put my key, and has gone to my bureau, and got a bonnet-trimming, and cut it all to pieces to make [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“Well, what about her?” “ She is very sorry for her fault. ” “ She is, is she ? She'll be sorrier, before I 've done with her ! I 've endured that child's impudence long enough; and now I'll bring her down,—I'll make her lie in the dust ! ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] this conversation was passing in the chamber, Legree, overcome with his carouse, had sunk to sleep in the room below. Legree was not an habitual drunkard. His coarse, strong nature craved, and could endure, a continual stimulation, that would have utterly wrecked and crazed a finer one. But a deep, underlying spirit of cautiousness prevented his often yielding to appetite in such measure as to lose [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] Talent has been developed, which, considering the circumstances, is certainly remarkable; and, for moral traits of honesty, kindness, tenderness of feeling,—for heroic efforts and self-denials, endured for the ransom of brethren and friends yet in slavery,—they have been remarkable to a degree that, considering the influence under which they were born, is surprising.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)