<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li><p>(used with object)</p><ul><li>endured, enduring.</li><li>to hold out against; sustain without impairment or yielding; undergo: to endure great financial pressures with equanimity.</li><li>to bear without resistance or with patience; tolerate: I cannot endure your insults any longer.</li><li>Synonyms: brook, suffer, support, stand.</li><li>to admit of; allow; bear: His poetry is such that it will not endure a superficial reading.</li></ul></li><li><p>(used without object)</p><ul><li>to continue to exist; last: These words will endure as long as people live who love freedom.</li><li>Synonyms: abide.</li><li>Antonyms: die, fail.</li><li>to support adverse force or influence of any kind; suffer without yielding; suffer patiently: Even in the darkest ages humanity has endured.</li><li>to have or gain continued or lasting acknowledgment or recognition, as of worth, merit or greatness: His plays have endured for more than three centuries.</li></ul></li></ul>