All 16 Uses of
endure
in
Interview with the Vampire
- The gathering was roused into commotion instantly, but I insisted that I was tired beyond endurance.†
Part 2 *endurance = the ability to suffer through (or put up with) something difficult or unpleasant
- And horrors rose all around me: the dumbly passive and, degraded damned of Bosch, the bloated coned corpses of Traini, the monstrous horsemen of Durer, and blown out of all endurable scale a promenade of medieval woodcut, emblem, and engraving.†
Part 3endurable = something that can be suffered through (or put up with)standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
- I forced myself to stare at it, to study it simply because I could hardly endure the pain and the smell (r)f decay, and I was tempted over and over to try to open his eyes.†
Part 1
- But had he been savage and ugly to my family, my guests, and my slaves, I couldn't have endured it.†
Part 1
- Well, this startled him, though it shouldn't have; and he protested he had much to tell me, of things and types of people I might kill who would cause sudden death and places in the world I must never go and so forth and so on, nonsense that I could hardly endure.†
Part 1
- I could see Lestat feeling along the brick walls, his hard enduring vampire face a twisted mask of human frustration.†
Part 1
- And I knew that it would not endure, that it would fly away from me like something torn out of my arms, and I would By after it, more desperately lonely than any creature under God, to get it back.†
Part 1
- I can't endure her?†
Part 1
- You threaten a life which might endure to the end of the world!'†
Part 1
- A lifetime that might have endured for centuries.†
Part 1
- Only that relief which weariness at last imposes, when neither mind nor body can endure the terror any longer.†
Part 2
- These were the monuments of men who could not die, not the stones of the living dead; here the secrets that had endured the passage of time, which I had only dimly begun to understand.†
Part 2
- I held my temples, staring dumbly at the floor in search of shelter, as if to lift my eyes would force me to look on some wretched suffering I would not, could not endure.†
Part 3
- Will she endure?†
Part 3
- A most remarkable thing, because a vampire can no more endure to be near his dead victims than any mammal can remain near any place where he has left his waste.†
Part 4
- How can you understand it all, how can you endure?†
Part 4
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