endures
endures is the third-person singular simple present indicative of endure.
Meaning of endure
Verb
endure (third-person singular simple present endures, present participle enduring, simple past and past participle endured)
- To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.
- The singer's popularity endured for decades.
- To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
- To last.
- Our love will endure forever.
- To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.
- Can thine heart indure, or can thine hands be ſtrong in the dayes that I ſhall deale with thee?1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 22:14, column 1
- To suffer patiently.
- He endured years of pain.
- To indurate.
Questions about endures
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