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PRONUNCIATION:

(puhr-DOOR, -DYOOR)

MEANING:

verb intr.: To continue to exist; endure.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin per- (through) + durare (to last), from durus (hard). Earliest documented use: 1475.

USAGE:

"The regime is gone; the images perdure."
William Meyers; Shades of Reality; The Wall Street Journal (New York); Mar 10, 2012.

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