Fade vs Endure - What's the difference?
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(archaic) Strong; bold; doughty
(archaic) Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.
* Jeffery
* De Quincey
(golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook, draw.
A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top fade and low fade.
(slang) A fight
To become faded; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
* Bible, Is. xxiv. 4
To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
* Milton
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
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, chapter=1 To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
* Addison
* Shakespeare
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
To cause to fade.
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.
In intransitive terms the difference between fade and endure
is that fade is to sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish while endure is to last.In transitive terms the difference between fade and endure
is that fade is to cause to fade while endure is to suffer patiently.As an adjective fade
is strong; bold; doughty.As a noun fade
is a golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook, draw.fade
English
(wikipedia fade)Etymology 1
From (etyl) fade, fede, of uncertain origin. Compare (etyl) . See also (l).Adjective
(en-adj)Etymology 2
From (etyl) fade, vad, .Adjective
(er)- Passages that are somewhat fade .
- His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous.
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(fad)- The earth mourneth and fadeth away.
- flowers that never fade
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- The milkman's whistling faded into the distance.
- The stars shall fade away.
- He makes a swanlike end, / Fading in music.
- A strange thing was that Bovary, while continually thinking of Emma, was forgetting her. He grew desperate as he felt this image fading from his memory in spite of all efforts to retain it. Yet every night he dreamt of her; it was always the same dream. He drew near her, but when he was about to clasp her she fell into decay in his arms.
Synonyms
* decrease, wane, become smaller (sort out synonyms by senses)Anagrams
* * ----endure
English
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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