inure
verb (used with object)
to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed byto ).
have inured
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present perfectof inure.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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“These messages have inured sections of the American public to evidence-based messages that need to be heard,” said Dr. Irwin Redlener, who directs the Pandemic Resource and Response Initiative at Columbia University.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2020
Forty years of “tough on crime” rhetoric and practice have inured much of the public to the horrors of prison.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2019
The family gift for predicting the future seems to have inured Rees-Mogg to the possibility that he may be about to enter the history books, but not in a hot way.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2018
He went on, “So many people, especially the people writing about G.M. right now, are saying, ‘It’s a collection of bad actors, and they have inured themselves to their responsibilities.’
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 27, 2015
The benefits of such a treaty would have inured almost wholly to Canada.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison by Benjamin Harrison
