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.

* {{quote-news

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(obsolete) To indurate.

Verb

(ensur)

To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.

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*:Thenne he cryed hym mercy and sayd Faire knyght for goddes loue slee me not / and I shall ensure the neuer werre ageynst thy lady / but be alwey toward her / Thenne Bors lete hym be

To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).

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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington

, title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}