All 6 Uses of
endure
in
All Quiet on the Western Front
- It's unendurable.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- If we could only see the animals we should be able to endure it better.
Chpt 4 (definition 1)endure = bear (suffer through; or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
- He must have been badly hit—one of those nasty wounds neither so severe that they exhaust the body at once and a man dreams on in a half-swoon, nor so light that a man endures the pain in the hope of becoming well again.
Chpt 6 (definition 1)endures = suffers through
- I soon found out this much:—terror can be endured so long as a man simply ducks;—but it kills, if a man thinks about it.
Chpt 7 (definition 1) *endured = suffered through
- My brain is taxed beyond endurance.
Chpt 9 (definition 1)endurance = the level at which it can suffer through
- [of war] I see that the keenest brains of the world invent weapons and words to make it yet more refined and enduring.
Chpt 10 (definition 2) *enduring = lasting (continuing to exist through time)
Definitions:
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(1) (endure as in: endured the pain) to suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
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(2) (endure as in: endure through the ages) to continue to exist