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inured

[in-yoor, ih-noor]

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verb (used with object)

to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to): inured to cold.

verb (used without object)

to come into use; take or have effect.

to become beneficial or advantageous.

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Also, enure.

Origin:
1480–90; v. use of phrase in ure, en ure in use, customary < Anglo-French en ure in use, at work, equivalent to en in + ure < Latin opera, plural of opus work; compare French oeuvre

Related forms

in·ur·ed·ness

[in-yoor-id-nis, ih-noor-, in-yoord-, ih-noord-] , noun

in·ure·ment, noun

un·in·ured, adjective

Can be confused: inhere, inure.

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Example Sentences

Some critics believe investors have become inured to the hefty payouts.

The full professors turn a callous eye toward this grieving process, having many years ago become inured to such losses.

Most people are inured to authoritarian rule as a fact of life.

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Some critics believe investors have become inured to the hefty payouts.

The full professors turn a callous eye toward this grieving process, having many years ago become inured to such losses.

Most people are inured to authoritarian rule as a fact of life.

In the past, many aid organizations have focused their recruiting efforts on finding staff perceived to be inured to hardship.

The pictures may shock when first viewed, but the shock definitely wears off and people become inured to it.

Of late auction houses have become somewhat inured to seeing their wares fall shy of the mark.

They were ready to accept a difficult transition and were inured to a certain level of violence.

Worcester residents have become inured to the sounds of chainsaws and wood chippers.

Inured by now to trash collecting and begging, they exist in conspicuously inhumane, squalid conditions.

The guilty, then, either sought pain out or were inured to it.

Apparently inured to the crackle of gunfire, tenants of the building did not report the killings until nine hours later.

Living with a one-in-40 chance of being killed by a rockfall, they are inured to risk.

Greek independence was won by bandits inured to fighting and marches, not by townsmen.

It is easy to become inured to the rhetoric of globalization, which seems to be on the lips of every ambitious college president.

The baby boomers are long since inured to the idea that when they.

Television viewers have become inured to accounts of the agonies of war, but a few incidents do stand out.

There are hundreds of millions of television watchers who are far from inured to what they see on television.

Maybe what audiences are inured to is noise, with all the exaggerated sound effects in film.

Moviegoers who have become inured to pre-show car ads and trivia quizzes.

They are, however, not only resigned to tragedy but inured to it in a way that to many raises alarms about the country's future.

Viewers inured to scenes of chaos can sometimes be moved by the disorienting sight of commonplace objects transformed by violence.

Yet nobody seems to worry that adults are becoming inured to excellence.

The subtext is how mankind is inured to horror, which becomes a news break between television commercials.

Viewers long ago became inured to the blurring of news and entertainment.

All the hotheads and cold shoulders he endured as a child have inured him to celebrity's charms.

Even those of us who work in one and have become inured to the general ambience are constantly startled by.

He inured himself to cold by embracing statues blanketed with snow.

Cruz, many of them are regulars long inured to seeing sons or lovers through the restrictive prism of an hourlong jail visit.

And there is the possibility of issuing so many alerts that people become inured to the danger.

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Word Origin & History

inure

c.1420, in ure "in practice," from obsolete ure "work, practice, exercise, use," probably from O.Fr. uevre, oeuvre "work," from L. opera (see opus).

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"That we can come here today and in the presence of thousands and tens of thousands of the survivors of the gallant army of Northern Virginia and their descendants, establish such an enduring monument by their hospitable welcome and acclaim, is conclusive proof of the uniting of the sections, and a universal confession that all that was done was well done, that the battle had to be fought, that the sections had to be tried, but that in the end, the result has inured to the common benefit of all."

-William Howard Taft

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