Verb

(head)

(endure)

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.

Verb

(head)

(suffer)

Verb

(en verb)

To undergo hardship.

To feel pain.

To have a disease or condition.

To become worse.

To endure, undergo.

* Shakespeare

If your more ponderous and settled project / May suffer alteration.

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(archaic) To allow.

* The U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 203:

"Employ" includes to suffer or permit to work.

* Section 31-36 of the Code of Montgomery County, Maryland:

*KJV, Matthew 19:14

*:But Jesus said, suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.