endure

1. Put up with something or somebody unpleasant (synset 200670017)
   "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
   is a type of: allow, countenance, let, permit - consent to, give permission
   subtypes:

   • accept, live with, swallow - tolerate or accommodate oneself to
   • hold still for, stand for - tolerate or bear
   • bear up - endure cheerfully
   • take lying down - suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively
   • take a joke - listen to a joke at one's own expense
   • sit out - endure to the end
   • pay - bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action
   same as: abide, bear, brook, digest, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate
   verb group: suffer - experience (emotional) pain
2. Face and withstand with courage (synset 202713111)
   "She braved the elements"
   is a type of: defy, hold, hold up, withstand - resist or confront with resistance
   same as: brave, brave out, weather
3. Continue to live and avoid dying (synset 202624202)
   "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?"; "One crash victim died, the other lived"
   entail: be, live - have life, be alive
   subtypes:

   • hold up, hold water, stand up - resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.
   • perennate - survive from season to season, of plants
   • live out - live out one's life; live to the end
   same as: go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on, survive
   verb group:

   • be, live - have life, be alive
   • exist, live, subsist, survive - support oneself
4. Undergo or be subjected to (synset 202113644)
   "He suffered the penalty"; "Many saints suffered martyrdom"
   is a type of: experience, go through, see - undergo or live through a difficult experience
   subtypes:

   • tolerate - have a tolerance for a poison or strong drug or pathogen or environmental condition
   • die - suffer or face the pain of death
   same as: suffer
5. Last and be usable (synset 202710992)
   "This dress wore well for almost ten years"
   is a type of: endure, last - persist for a specified period of time
   same as: hold out, wear
6. Persist for a specified period of time (synset 202710788)
   "The bad weather lasted for three days"
   is a type of: measure - have certain dimensions
   subtypes:

   • run, run for - extend or continue for a certain period of time
   • endure, hold out, wear - last and be usable
   • drag on, drag out - last unnecessarily long
   same as: last
7. Continue to exist (synset 202653599)
   "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures"
   is a type of: continue - exist over a prolonged period of time
   subtypes:

   • carry over - transfer or persist from one stage or sphere of activity to another
   • reverberate - have a long or continuing effect
   same as: die hard, persist, prevail, run
   verb group: run - occur persistently

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