ENDURE


Meaning of ENDURE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪndjʊə(r), AM -dʊr ]

( endures, enduring, endured)

1.

If you endure a painful or difficult situation, you experience it and do not avoid it or give up, usually because you cannot.

The company endured heavy financial losses.

VERB : V n

2.

If something endures , it continues to exist without any loss in quality or importance.

Somehow the language endures and continues to survive.

= persist

VERB : V

• en‧dur‧ing

...the start of an enduring friendship.

ADJ : usu ADJ n

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