Verb

To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships.

The singer's popularity endured for decades.

To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.

To last.

Our love will endure forever.

* Bible, Job viii. 15

He shall hold it [his house] fast, but it shall not endure .

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

Can thine heart endure , or can thine hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with thee?

To suffer patiently.

He endured years of pain.

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(obsolete) To indurate.

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Verb

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To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to.

* 1891 , Henry Graham Dakyns (translator), The works of Xenophon , ",

[T]he master in his wrath may easily incur worse evil himself than he inflicts—[...]

* 1910 , ,

And here it is to be noted that hatred is incurred as well on account of good actions as of bad;

(chiefly, legal) To render somebody liable or subject to.

* 1861 , ,

The least neglect of duty will incur [...] the penalty of thirty-nine well laid on in the morning.

(obsolete) To enter or pass into.

(obsolete) To fall within a period or scope; to occur; to run into danger.

To render liable or subject to; to occasion.

* Chapman

Lest you incur me much more damage in my fame than you have done me pleasure in preserving my life.