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endure
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)
- (intransitive) To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.
- The singer's popularity endured for decades.
- (transitive) To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
- (intransitive) To last.
- Our love will endure forever.
- To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.
- (transitive) To suffer patiently.
- He endured years of pain.
- (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
- first-person singular present indicative of endurer
- third-person singular present indicative of endurer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of endurer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of endurer
- second-person singular imperative of endurer
Anagrams
- rendue
endure From the web:
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- what ensures to the point communication
- what ensured the success of south carolina
- what ensures continuity of care
- what ensure good for
- what ensures coordination and balance
- what ensure means
- what ensures domestic tranquility
nurture
English
Alternative forms
- nouriture (obsolete)
- nutriture (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English norture, noriture, from Old French norriture, norreture, from Late Latin nutritura (“nourishment”), from Latin nutrire (“to nourish”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n???.t???/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t??(?)
Noun
nurture (countable and uncountable, plural nurtures)
- The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care
- Synonyms: upbringing, raising, education, training
- That which nourishes; food; diet.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, A Veue of the Present State of Ireland
- Other great houses there be of the English in Ireland, which, through licentious conversing with the Irish, or marrying, or fostering with them or lack of meet nurture, or other such unhappy occasions, have degenerated from their ancient dignities and are now grown as Irish as O'Hanlon's breech, as the proverb there is.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, A Veue of the Present State of Ireland
- The environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual (as opposed to "nature").
- 1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes
- A man neither by nature nor by nurture wise.
- 1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes
Translations
Verb
nurture (third-person singular simple present nurtures, present participle nurturing, simple past and past participle nurtured)
- To nourish or nurse.
- (figuratively, by extension) To encourage, especially the growth or development of something.
- 2009, UNESCO, The United Nations World Water Development Report – N° 3 - 2009 – Freshwater and International Law (the Interplay between Universal, Regional and Basin Perspectives), page 10, ?ISBN
- The relationships between universal norms and specific norms nurture the development of international law.
- 2009, UNESCO, The United Nations World Water Development Report – N° 3 - 2009 – Freshwater and International Law (the Interplay between Universal, Regional and Basin Perspectives), page 10, ?ISBN
Synonyms
- (figuratively, to encourage): See Thesaurus:nurture
Related terms
- nourish
- nourishment
- nurse
- nursery
- nurturance
- nutrient
- nutriment
- nutrition
- nutritional
- nutritious
- nutritive
Translations
Further reading
- nurture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- nurture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- U-turner, untruer
Middle English
Noun
nurture
- Alternative form of norture
nurture From the web:
- what nurture means
- what nurtures you as a person
- what neutered means
- what neutered cat
- what neutered dog
- what nurtures me as a person
- what's nurture vs nature
- what nurtures your personal growth
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