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maintain
English
Etymology
From Middle English mayntenen, from Old French maintenir, from Late Latin man?tene?, man?ten?re (“I support”), from Latin man? (“with the hand”) + tene? (“I hold”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /me?n?te?n/, /m?n?te?n/
- Rhymes: -e?n
Verb
maintain (third-person singular simple present maintains, present participle maintaining, simple past and past participle maintained)
- (obsolete, transitive) To support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action. [14th-19thc.]
- To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.). [from 14thc.]
- To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert. [from 15thc.]
Antonyms
- (to keep up): abandon
Derived terms
- maintainability
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- amanitin
maintain From the web:
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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
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- what ensures domestic tranquility
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