2 meanings, 11 uses
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1 —10 uses as in:
endured the pain
Definition
to suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
- And besides there is nothing in all the world that can give me more pain than I have already endured, than I suffer now!Chapter 22 (10% in)
endured = suffered through
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- It was a shock to me to turn from the wonderful smoky beauty of a sunset over London, with its lurid lights and inky shadows and all the marvellous tints that come on foul clouds even as on foul water, and to realize all the grim sternness of my own cold stone building, with its wealth of breathing misery, and my own desolate heart to endure it all.Chapter 9 (94% in)
- Nay, but they are not to take in a decoction or in nauseous form, so you need not snub that so charming nose, or I shall point out to my friend Arthur what woes he may have to endure in seeing so much beauty that he so loves so much distort.Chapter 10 (88% in)
- I lay still and endured, that was all.Chapter 19 (87% in)
- I looked at my companions, one after another, and saw from their flushed faces and damp brows that they were enduring equal torture.Chapter 21 (17% in)
- He be beaten back, but did he stay? No! He come again, and again, and again. Look at his persistence and endurance.Chapter 24 (43% in)
- You are strong in your numbers, for you can defy that which would break down the human endurance of one who had to guard alone.Chapter 24 (88% in)
- I could not have endured the horrid screeching as the stake drove home, the plunging of writhing form, and lips of bloody foam.Chapter 27 (59% in)
- When I stepped into the circle where Madam Mina slept, she woke from her sleep and, seeing me, cried out in pain that I had endured too much.Chapter 27 (61% in)
- And the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured.Chapter 27 (96% in)
endure = suffer through
endure = suffer through
endured = continued to suffer through something difficult
enduring = suffering through
endurance = ability or determination to suffer through difficulties
endurance = ability to suffer through difficulty
endured = continued to suffer through
endured = suffered through
endured = suffered through
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2 —1 use as in:
endure through the ages
Definition
to continue to exist
- She was so good and brave that we all felt that our hearts were strengthened to work and endure for her, and we began to discuss what we were to do.Chapter 22 (20% in)
endure = continue to work through hardships
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