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Durned vs Dured - What's the difference?

durned | dured |

As an adjective durned

is darned.

As a verb dured is

(dure).

durned

English

Adjective

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  • darned
  • * {{quote-book, year=1912, author=Kate Langley Bosher, title=The Man in Lonely Land, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Take the durned thing away. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1916, author=Fannie Hurst, title=Every Soul Hath Its Song, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I liked your nerve, too, durned if I didn't!" }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1995, date=April 28, author=Mary Shen Barnidge, title=Zara Spook and Other Lures, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=All four are hoping to enjoy some quiet time at the women's bass fishing tournament, but durned if wimpy Talmadge and grumpy Mel don't tag along and upset everything. }}

    dured

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dure)

    • dure

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Verb

    (dur)
  • (label) To last, continue, endure.
  • *:
  • *:she was one of the damoysels of the lake that hy?te Nyneue // And euer she maade Merlyn good chere tyl she had lerned of hym al maner thynge that she desyred and he was assoted vpon her that he myghte not be from her / Soo on a tyme he told kynge Arthur that he sholde not dure longe but for al his craftes he shold be put in the erthe quyck
  • *1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) XIII:
  • *:But he that was sowne in the stony grunde ys he, which heareth the worde of God, and anon with ioye receaveth itt, yet hath no rottes in himselfe, And therefore he dureth but a season.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (lena) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) hard; harsh; severe; rough
  • * W. H. Russell
    • The winter is severe, and life is dure and rude.

    Anagrams

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