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.

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(obsolete) To indurate.

Verb

(en verb)

To survive on a minimum of resources.

* Atterbury

to subsist on other men's charity

(mostly, philosophy) To have ontological reality; to exist.

* Alexander Pope

And makes what happiness we justly call, / Subsist not in the good of one, but all.

To continue; to retain a certain state.

* Milton

Firm we subsist , yet possible to swerve.