All 8 Uses of
endure
in
Catch-22
- They were lovely, satisfying, maddening manifestations of the miraculous, instruments of pleasure too powerful to be measured, too keen to be endured, and too exquisite to be intended for employment by base, unworthy man.†
Chpt 6
- The false black mustache was a flamboyant organ-grinder's, and he wore them both to the basketball game one day when he felt he could endure his loneliness no longer.†
Chpt 9
- He could come through other people's tonsillectomies without suffering any postoperative distress, and even endure their hernias and hemorrhoids with only mild nausea and revulsion.†
Chpt 17
- And let someone know if the pain becomes unendurable.†
Chpt 18
- There was a gruesome and excruciating silence that threatened to endure forever.†
Chpt 18
- He could not endure the suspense.†
Chpt 21 *
- The chaplain was moved almost to tears by the harassed, bedraggled picture the captain presented, and he filled with deference and compassion at the thought of the many severe rigors the poor man had to endure daily.†
Chpt 25
- 'It's still a miracle, a miracle of human intelligence and human endurance.†
Chpt 42 *
Definitions:
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(endure as in: endured the pain) to suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
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(endure as in: endure through the ages) to continue to exist