Endurable vs Endured - What's the difference?
endurable | endured |
Able to be endured; tolerable; bearable.
Capable of enduring; likely to endure; durable.
(endure)
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 endurable
is able to be endured; tolerable; bearable.As a verb endured is
past tense of endure.endurable
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Alternative forms
* indurable (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* endurability * endurableness * endurablyendured
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*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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