Endure - tolerate
Prolonged - lengthy
Innumerable - countless
Sodden - soaked
Dialogue can show the reader how the character thinks, interacts with others, communicates, and possibly even where the character is from and/or their educational level.
To use your example, cede does mean to go. However, "recede" means to draw back or go back. Think of an ocean. What does the tide do at certain times? It recedes!
So re- is the best answer.
What about the story of “The Devil and Tom Walker
