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en·ure    Audio Help   [en-yoor, -oor] Pronunciation Key
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object), -ured, -ur·ing.
inure.
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in·ure also en·ure    Audio Help   (ĭn-yŏŏr')  Pronunciation Key 
tr.v.   in·ured also en·ured, in·ur·ing also en·ur·ing, in·ures also en·ures
To habituate to something undesirable, especially by prolonged subjection; accustom: "Though the food became no more palatable, he soon became sufficiently inured to it" (John Barth).


[Middle English, back-formation from enured, customary, from in ure : in, in; see in1 + ure, use (from Old French euvre, uevre, work, from Latin opera, activity associated with work; see op- in Indo-European roots).]

in·ure'ment n.
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enured

adjective
made tough by habitual exposure; "hardened fishermen"; "a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- Robert Lynd; "our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"- V.S.Pritchett 

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