All 4 Uses
endure
in
The Call of the Wild
(Edited)
- All the pain he had endured was as nothing compared with the exquisite agony of this.
p. 16.3 *endured = suffered through
- As he spoke he fearlessly patted the head he had so mercilessly pounded, and though Buck's hair involuntarily bristled at touch of the hand, he endured it without protest.
p. 17.6endured = put up with
- They were all too soft, dying under the toil, the frost, and starvation. Buck was the exception. He alone endured and prospered, matching the husky in strength, savagery, and cunning.
p. 58.7 *endured = survived
- Upon which impeachment of what to her was her most essential sex-prerogative, she made their lives unendurable.
p. 112.2unendurable = unbearablestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unendurable means not and reverses the meaning of endurable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)