endure

To experience pain or difficulty, especially for a long time, without giving up.

• She had to endure terrible pain.
• They endured years of hardship together.
• How much longer can we endure this heat?

Similar words: bear, suffer, tolerate, put up with

Common phrases: endure pain, endure hardship, endure something patiently

To continue to exist for a long time.

• Their love will endure.
• The tradition has endured for centuries.
• Will these memories endure as we grow older?

How to use it: endure for + period of time (Their friendship endured for fifty years.)

Similar words: last, remain, persist

Opposites: end, fade

Common phrases: endure for years, endure forever, endure over time, endure for centuries

To continue despite problems, danger, or difficult conditions.

• We can endure together.
• The movement endured despite strong opposition.
• Small businesses have endured through several economic crises.

How to use it: endure despite something (The community endured despite years of conflict.)

Similar words: persist, survive, carry on

Opposites: give up

Common phrases: endure despite something, endure through something