Inure
[ɪ'njʊə;ɪ'njɔː]
Definition
(verb.) cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; 'He was inured to the cold'.
Edited by Lenore--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To apply in use; to train; to discipline; to use or accustom till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience; to harden; to habituate; to practice habitually.
(v. i.) To pass into use; to take or have effect; to be applied; to serve to the use or benefit of; as, a gift of lands inures to the heirs.
Checker: Vernon
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Habituate, accustom, use, familiarize, train.
v. n. [Written also Enure.] Be applied, come into use, take effect.
Checker: Phyllis
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ACCUSTOM]
Typist: Tyler
Definition
v.t. to use or practise habitually: to accustom: to harden.—v.i. (law) to come into use or effect: to serve to the use or benefit of.—n. Inure′ment act of inuring: practice.
Inputed by Leonard
Examples
- A younger son, you know, must be inured to self-denial and dependence. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Inured now for so long a time to rooms with bare boards, black benchesdesks, and stoves, the blue saloon seemed to me gorgeous. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I am inured to it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She clung to Ursula, who, through long usage was inured to this violation of a dark, uncreated, hostile world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- What thorns and briers, what flints, he strewed in the path of feet not inured to rough travel! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But custom, combined with science--particularly science--inured me to it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I might suffer; I was inured to suffering: death itself had not, I thought, those terrors for me which it has for the softly reared. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I commenced by inuring my body to hardship. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
Typist: Marcus