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endured the pain
Definition
to suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
- Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.p. 113.4
endure = suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
There are no more uses of "endure" flagged with this meaning in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
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- No one had helped me endure the sickly gray months.p. 288.4
- So all was endured in a spirit of shared understanding.p. 169.7
- How could one or two or even a mouthful of angry tooth roots meet a wagonload of powhitetrash children, endure their idiotic snobbery and not feel less important?p. 187.5
- One girl, whose name and face have melted into the years, gave me "an all-enduring friendship ring," and Juan gave me a black lace handkerchief just in case I wanted to go to church sometime.p. 254.9
- Thanks to Mr. Freeman nine years before, I had had no pain of entry to endure, and because of the absence of romantic involvement neither of us felt much had happened.p. 282.7
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