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Meanings of endure in English

Portuguese
aguentar
Catalan
tolerar
Spanish
tolerar

To allow (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) to continue to exist or occur without interference; accept or undergo, often unwillingly.

    aguentar
    Portuguese
    resistir
    Catalan
    sobreviure
    Spanish
    persistir

    Continue to live through hardship or adversity.

        resistir
        Catalan
        persistir
        Spanish
        persistir

        Continue to exist.

              persistir
              Portuguese
              resistir
              Catalan
              persistir

              Face and withstand with courage.

                    resistir
                    Usage of endure in English
                    1
                    Human power could not, however, much longer endure so severe a trial.
                    The Last of the Mohicans
                    2
                    I believe the government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
                    A. lincoln: a biography
                    3
                    A number of market economists are predicting Australia will endure a recession.
                    The Guardian
                    4
                    Food and water, sufficient to endure a brief siege, were stored inside.
                    Surrender to the will of the night
                    5
                    They endure the daily humiliations large and small that come with occupation.
                    Reuters
                    6
                    We can scarcely endure the heat of the cooking-stove in the kitchen.
                    The Backwoods of Canada / Being Letters from the Wife of an Emig...
                    7
                    Keep absolutely still; it is easier to endure it in this way.
                    Korea's Fight for Freedom
                    8
                    It was part of the great system; and she must endure it.
                    Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face
                    9
                    The reminiscence stung me to the quick; I could endure no more.
                    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 / A Maga...
                    10
                    Everything changes; only the word of the Father shall endure for ever.
                    I.N.R.I.: A prisoner's Story of the Cross
                    11
                    She could no longer endure the city nor the people in it.
                    The Goose Man
                    12
                    Sure enough, children will endure possession in remoter parts of the countryside.
                    The Irish Times
                    13
                    Even in normal times, they endure long lines at stores and pharmacies.
                    Reuters
                    14
                    The trees cannot endure frost and must be irrigated in the summer.
                    Stories of California
                    15
                    It never could have been; and she must endure to the end.
                    Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time
                    16
                    He could not endure the thought of remaining buried in the crowd.
                    Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 01
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