Endure and Pass

Endure

Endure verb - To come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it.

Usage example: an elderly couple who have endured the ups and downs of a half century of married life

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Pass and endure are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pass" instead a verb "Endure".

Nearby Words: enduring, endurance, endurable

Pass verb - To come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it.

Usage example: a presidential candidate who doesn't yet know how it feels to pass the scrutiny of the national press

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Endure and pass are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Endure" instead a verb "Pass".

Nearby Words: passage, passed, passing, passable

trial	endure trial	pass trial
series	endure series	pass series
time	endure time	pass time
game	endure game	pass game
Other words: times, trials, levels.

And they can endure a lot, because they spent several centuries repeatedly killing each other to pass the time.

Source: Story-Breaker Power
And I Must Scream: A version appears in "The Conditional Reflex": students of the Institute must pass a test where they have to endure sensory deprivation for as long as possible.

Source: Literature / Tales of Pirx the Pilot
In Stanisław Lem's Tales of Pirx the Pilot, one of the initial tests for astronauts is a temporal version of this: cadets must pass a test where they are deprived of all senses and have to endure that as long as possible.

Source: And I Must Scream / Literature

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