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"endure" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often bear (4 letters).
Definitions
put up with something or somebody unpleasant
Word origin
From Middle English enduren, from Old French endurer, from Latin indūrō (“to make hard”). Displaced Old English drēogan, which survives dialectally as dree. Doublet of dure.
Used in a sentence
“The singer's popularity endured for decades.”
“[…] The life that almost dies in me: That dies not, but endures with pain, And slowly forms the firmer mind, Treasuring the look it cannot find, The words that are not heard again.”
“Our love will endure forever.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Last through hardship”6 letters
02“Withstand”6 letters
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