All 7 Uses
endure
in
Breaking Dawn, by Meyer
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- Too strong, for one thing, but she could probably endure that for a while.†
Book 2
- Endure.†
Book 3
- I would endure this until help came.†
Book 3
- I could remember the reason why I'd committed to enduring this unendurable agony.†
Book 3
- I could remember the reason why I'd committed to enduring this unendurable agony.†
Book 3unendurable = not capable of being suffered through (or put up with)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unendurable means not and reverses the meaning of endurable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Human food filled her and it seemed compatible with her system, but she reacted to all varieties of solid food with the same martyred endurance I had once given cauliflower and lima beans.†
Book 3 *
- I could not bear to watch Edward cross the empty white space alone—but I also could not endure to have Renesmee one step closer to our adversaries.†
Book 3
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
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)