inure
to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to): inured to cold.
to come into use; take or have effect.
to become beneficial or advantageous.
Origin of inure
1- Also en·ure [en-yoor, -oor] /ɛnˈyʊər, -ˈʊər/ .
Other words from inure
- in·ure·ment, noun
Words that may be confused with inure
- inhere, inure
Words Nearby inure
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How to use inure in a sentence
There is also the real danger of inuring the reader to violence, by repetition or escalation desensitizing the reader – the actual opposite of what I intended.
Don Winslow: The Complicated Ethics of Writing Violence in Fiction | Don Winslow | April 27, 2022 | TimeYet even he’d found himself becoming inured to scenarios that would have been previously unthinkable.
The Broken Front Line | by Ava Kofman, photography by Kendrick Brinson and David Walter Banks | April 7, 2021 | ProPublicaThe nation carried on, inured to the toll the pandemic had taken and the deaths yet to come.
People Gave Up On Flu Pandemic Measures A Century Ago When They Tired Of Them – And Paid A Price | LGBTQ-Editor | March 28, 2021 | No Straight NewsThat would amuse him, change the air of his thoughts, and give him time to inure himself to the horrible thing he had discovered.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. | Guy de MaupassantThe continual thought of a good man was how to inure himself to suffering, and prepare himself for death.
What then, said Madame, are not thirty Tears Misfortunes enough to inure her to them?
The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III | Karl Ludwig von PllnitzBut we must inure ourselves, in the biography of Petrarch, to his over-estimation of favourites in the article of morals.
There is another advantage of Government cooperation that will inure greatly to the benefit of the settler.
Conservation Through Engineering | Franklin K. Lane
British Dictionary definitions for inure
enure
/ (ɪˈnjʊə) /
(tr; often passive often foll by to) to cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
(intr) (esp of a law, etc) to come into operation; take effect
Origin of inure
1Derived forms of inure
- inuredness or enuredness (ɪˈnjʊərɪdnɪs), noun
- inurement or enurement, noun
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