verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an abiding/enduring/lasting memory (= that you will always have )
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The children's abiding memory of their father is of his patience and gentleness.
an enduring myth (= that has continued for a long time )
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The idea that Kennedy was shot by the CIA is one of the enduring myths of our time.
continuing/enduring popularity
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Today, the novel enjoys enduring popularity and ranks among the USA's top-selling books.
endure an ordeal
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In his book, he describes how he endured the ordeal of prison life.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
long
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Here, you might think, is a piece of the past that will not long endure .
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Neither pope nor president can long endure without such cleansing.
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Raised in London, he suffered polio in childhood and endured long spells in hospital.
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They made each other miserable, locking wills, disbelieving that the other party could long endure a war of emotional attrition.
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Few among mortals could have long endured that unchanging brilliancy of light, but few had ever found their way thither.
most
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Thus the Premiership's most enduring fairytale has reached a dark denouement worthy of the brothers Grimm.
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But the most enduring treasure is the city itself.
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But it has proven among the most enduring .
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The movie San Francisco has given this resiliency its most enduring , sentimental, and apolitical treatment.
■ NOUN
death
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The others were beheaded first; her executioner botched her beheading and left her to endure a three-day death .
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He went to the Games in 1992 as he endured the death of his father.
hardship
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We have endured hardship in order to provide continuous feedback.
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Born in about 570, Muhammad endured many hardships in the first forty years of his life.
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Working-class women who endured hardship and self-sacrifice and survived with something of themselves still intact.
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Wilson speeches often praise the gumption of illegal immigrants who take risks and endure hardships to better themselves and their families.
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Nineteenth-century irrigation pioneers were better suited to endure hardships than settlers who struggled to survive on Federal Reclamation projects after 1902.
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His own soldiers respected him because he was always prepared to endure hardships .
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She has had to endure hardships and humiliations.
life
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The old, once old, endured their lives and missed their children.
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She married him, had two children in two years and, she says, endured a hard life .
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But for both of them, in different ways, there was now an enduring chill in their lives .
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While she does not want to die, neither does she want to endure a long life in prison.
month
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But that hurt is nothing compared to what the powerful blond-haired midfielder has endured these past few months .
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He felt weak, like some one who has endured months of broken nights.
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This I endured for several months , having no spirit even to complain.
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We write as partners in a practice which is presently enduring a three month interregnum.
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The symptoms she endured varied from month to month, worsening or improving according to the circumstances of her life at the time.
pain
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It wasn't only the pain fitzAlan must be enduring that worried her.
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Her feelings of desperation were made worse by the nearly constant lower back pain she endured .
woman
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Being abused is the humiliating situation for both men and women so do not endure this punishment.
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I know there are many women who endure similar treatment from men who profess to love them.
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Working-class women who endured hardship and self-sacrifice and survived with something of themselves still intact.
years
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The £2 million former West Ham man has endured an up-and-down four years on Merseyside.
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Johnny endured in its brief years in Hartford, Conn.&038;.
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A name that will endure hundreds of years into the future.
■ VERB
force
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The red card was rescinded but only after the keeper had been forced to endure several days of shame and regret.
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Really, I think I should have strangled the man if forced to endure his companionship aboard a small vessel!
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We in the Conservative Party have no truck with that style of gutter journalism which we were forced to endure last Sunday.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Many cancer patients have to endure a great deal of pain.
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Scott's popularity endured well beyond his death in 1832.
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She endured a barrage of open abuse and racism during her time at college.
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She has endured ten years of painful back operations.
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The people in this country have endured almost a decade of economic hardship.
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They were lost in the mountains for ten days, enduring hunger, thirst, and intense cold.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A pied-piper's trail of opportunity discarded, needless abasement endured, and a grievous ransom paid in blood and treasure.
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Finally a day came when they could endure no longer.
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It was slavery in all but name, and names meant little to those who had to endure it.
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Neither pope nor president can long endure without such cleansing.
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None of these authors focuses on why marriage, having endured so long, is now in such a mess.
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Working-class women who endured hardship and self-sacrifice and survived with something of themselves still intact.