2009년 9월 12일 토요일

Dic: endure (as a verb intransitive)

  • Somehow the language endures and continues to survive.
  • buildings that have endured for centuries.
  • the start of an enduring friendship.
  • a novel of enduring interest.

2. VERB | If something endures, it continues to exist without any loss in quality or importance. (= persist)

cf. = live on, survive, last, live, hold out, hold up, go
cf. Latin indurare to harden

.... Cobuild, The American Heritage, Collins Essential

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