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endured the pain
Definition
to suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
- ...pains they had endured—childbirth, rheumatism, croup, sprains...4 — Spring (44% in)
endured = suffered through
- Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took all of the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.2 — Autumn (35% in)
- Pecola, on the other hand, restricted by youth and sex, experimented with methods of endurance.2 — Autumn (68% in)
- A sweet, endurable, even cherished irritation, full of promise and delicate security.2 — Autumn (76% in)
- In any illness that could not be handled by ordinary means— known cures, intuition, or endurance—the word was always, "Fetch M'Dear.4 — Spring (42% in)
There are no more uses of "endure" flagged with this meaning in The Bluest Eye.
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- Afraid of running into Darlene, he would not go far from the house, but neither could he endure the atmosphere of his dead Aunt's house.4 — Spring (59% in)
- Short crocus blades sheathed the purple-and-white hearts that so wished to be first they endured the chill and rain of early spring.4 — Spring (9% in)
- Bestiality did not occur to him, and sodomy was quite out of the question, for he did not experience sustained erections and could not endure the thought of somebody else's.4 — Spring (79% in)
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