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)

(survive)

Verb

(surviv)

Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.

Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.

To live longer than; to outlive.

His children survived''' him; he was '''survived by his children.

* Shakespeare

I'll assure her of / Her widowhood, be it that she survive me, / In all my lands and leases whatsoever.

* 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy , X:

‘I am afraid, as will happen in other cases, the treaty of alliance has survived the amicable dispositions in which it had its origin.’

To live past a life-threatening event.

He did not survive the accident.

(sports) Of a team, to avoid relegation or demotion to a lower division or league.