Durable vs Endure - What's the difference?
durable | endure |
(economics) A durable good, one useful over more than one period, especially a year.
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To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships.
To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
To last.
* Bible, Job viii. 15
To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.
* Bible, Ezekiel xxii. 14
To suffer patiently.
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(obsolete) To indurate.
As an adjective durable
is able to resist wear, decay; lasting; enduring.As a noun durable
is (economics) a durable good, one useful over more than one period, especially a year.As a verb endure is
.durable
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Synonyms
* permanentAntonyms
* weak * vulnerable * transitoryNoun
(en noun)Antonyms
* nondurable ----endure
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Alternative forms
* enduer (obsolete) * indure (obsolete)Verb
- The singer's popularity endured for decades.
- Our love will endure forever.
- He shall hold it [his house] fast, but it shall not endure .
- Can thine heart endure , or can thine hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with thee?
- He endured years of pain.
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