endured
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of endure.
The villagers endured years of drought before the rains finally returned.
He had endured great hardship long before anyone noticed his quiet strength.
Note
One spelling does two jobs, and the choice turns on whether something is being borne. With an object (hardship, drought, pain) the verb is transitive and can go passive: the insults were endured in silence. Without one it means lasted or held out (the friendship endured), and there only the active perfect works: it had endured, never it was endured. A long-obsolete use meant simply hardened.
The insults were endured in silence for months.
Their friendship endured long after the war had ended.
endured is a form of endure
endure, verb: To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant or difficult. Full entry
- Spelling
- endure → endured: add -d
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