They were a hard-driven, hardworking crowd inured to the hardest living, and they found their recreation in hard drinking and hard fighting.
-- Allen Barra, Inventing Wyatt Earp
How does one become inured to unpredictable moments of helplessness?
-- Stephen Kuusisto, Planet Of The Blind
At school, he repeatedly jabbed the nib of his pen into his hand, wanting to inure himself to agony.
-- Peter Conrad, "Enter the philosopher, with an axe", The Observer, September 8, 2002
Origin:
Inure derives from prefix in-, "in" + obsolete ure, "use, work," from Old French uevre, "work," from Latin opera, "trouble, pains, exertion," from opus, "work."
\in-YOOR\ , transitive verb;