different between allow vs endure

English

Etymology

From Middle English allowen, alowen, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman allouer, alouer, from Medieval Latin allaud?re, present active infinitive of allaud?, merged with alouer, from Medieval Latin alloc? (“to assign”). The similarity with Middle English alyfen (from Old English ?l?fan, ?l?efan) and German erlauben, both from Proto-Germanic *uzlaubijan? (“to allow”) is coincidental.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??la?/
• enPR: ?-lou'
• Rhymes: -a?

Verb

allow (third-person singular simple present allows, present participle allowing, simple past and past participle allowed)

1. (transitive) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
2. (transitive) To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
3. (transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.

4. (transitive) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
5. To not bar or obstruct.
6. (transitive) To take into account by making an allowance.

7. (transitive) To render physically possible.
8. (transitive, obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
9. (obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.
10. (transitive, obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.

Synonyms

• allot, assign, bestow, concede, admit, let, permit, suffer, tolerate

Derived terms

Related terms

• allowance
• disallow

Translations

References

• allow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Alternative forms

• enduer (obsolete)
• indure (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English enduren, from Old French endurer, from Latin ind?r? (“to make hard”). Displaced Old English dr?ogan, which survives dialectally as dree.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?dj???(?)/, /?n?dj??(?)/, /?n?d?????(?)/, /?n?d????(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n?d(j)??/
• Rhymes: -??(r)

Verb

endure (third-person singular simple present endures, present participle enduring, simple past and past participle endured)

1. (intransitive) To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.

   The singer's popularity endured for decades.

2. (transitive) To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
3. (intransitive) To last.

   Our love will endure forever.
4. To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.
5. (transitive) To suffer patiently.

   He endured years of pain.
6. (obsolete) To indurate.

Synonyms

• (to continue despite obstacles): carry on, plug away; See also Thesaurus:persevere
• (to tolerate something): bear, thole, take; See also Thesaurus:tolerate
• (to last): go on, hold on, persist; See also Thesaurus:persist
• (to remain firm): resist, survive, withstand
• (to suffer patiently): accept, thole, withstand
• (to indurate):

Related terms

• endurance
• enduring
• enduro
• duress

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “endure”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• durene, enduer, enured, reuned

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.dy?/

Verb

endure

1. first-person singular present indicative of endurer
2. third-person singular present indicative of endurer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of endurer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of endurer
5. second-person singular imperative of endurer

Anagrams

• rendue