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co-enduring

co-enduring is the present participle and gerund of co-endure.

Meaning of co-endure

Verb

co-endure (third-person singular simple present co-endures, present participle co-enduring, simple past and past participle co-endured)

  1. (intransitive) To endure alongside someone or something, to coexist over time.
    • But the task before us, which is to co-endure with our existence, is rather one of microscopic fineness, and the heroism required is that of patience.1900, Robert Louis Stevenson, A Christmas Sermon
  2. (transitive) To endure or suffer with someone
    • An ability to co-endure the pain and suffering of the afflicted requires an awareness that theirs is the sort of pain that manifests itself not just physically or psychologically, but socially as well.2013, Derrell R. Watkins, Practical Theology for Aging, →ISBN, page 62

Adjective

co-enduring (not comparable)

  1. Lasting alongside
    • With the present psychical and structural characteristics of the human species, it may be reasonably concluded that those of other existing species, especially of the distinctly marked vertebrate classes, will be, at least, concurrent and co-enduring;2011, Richard Owen, On the Anatomy of Vertebrates, →ISBN, page xxxvii

Questions about co-enduring

What does co-enduring mean?
Co-enduring means lasting alongside.
What is co-enduring the present participle and gerund of?
Co-enduring is the present participle and gerund of co-endure.
What part of speech is co-enduring?
Co-enduring is an adjective.

Words near co-enduring in the dictionary

  1. co-educating
  2. co-employment
  3. co-endure
  4. co-endured
  5. co-endures
  6. co-enduring
  7. co-enrollment
  8. co-enrollments
  9. co-equal
  10. co-equals
  11. co-eval

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