Word of the Day:
endure
What It Means
To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.
To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
To last.
The singer's popularity endured for decades.
Endure in Context
“Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley.”
Did You Know?
From Middle English enduren, from Old French endurer, from Latin indūrō (“to make hard”). Displaced Old English drēogan, which survives dialectally as dree. Doublet of dure.
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