Meaning

(transitive) To cause someone to become accustomed to something that requires prolonged or repeated tolerance of one or more unpleasantries..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To cause someone to become accustomed to something that requires prolonged or repeated tolerance of one or more unpleasantries.
2. (intransitive, chiefly law) To take effect, to be operative.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To commit.

Example Sentences

Matcht with as valiant men, and of as cleane a might, / As skilfull to commaund, and as inur’d to fight.

To none of these evidences of a fearful tragedy of a long dead day did little Tarzan give but passing heed. His wild jungle life had inured him to the sight of dead and dying animals, and had he known that he was looking upon the remains of his own father and mother he would have been no more greatly moved.

Your insults to myself can be endured, / I am a philosopher and am inured. / But there are insults that I will not swallow / That you have levelled at our gods.

As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils.

Young people all across the continent were inured to a level of public brutality, in words and actions, that would have shocked their nineteenth-century forebears.

This conflict produces a psychic numbing that inures us to the realities of being tracked, parsed, mined, and modified.

“Our kids have come to a place where they’re inured,” he said. “It’s almost like they accept it, which is not OK.”

Jim buys a beach house that includes the right to travel across the neighbor's property to get to the water. That right of way is said "to inure to the benefit of Jim".

Word Forms

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Use in ure when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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