Translation
all the way; continuously
Examples
ambulavimus.
We walked all the way to the sea.
laboravit.
He worked right up until nightfall.
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He read from the beginning right through to the end.
redeat manebimus.
We shall wait right up until he returns.
clamabat.
The boy kept on shouting.
Usque is an intensifier of extent rather than a preposition in its own right. It leans on a preposition or a conjunction and pushes it to the limit: usque ad mare, all the way to the sea; usque dum redeat, right up until he returns. Standing alone with a verb it means 'without stopping', so usque clamabat is 'he kept on shouting'. The doubled phrase usque quaque means 'everywhere' or 'on every occasion'.
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