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Definition

cause to become untroubled by something unpleasant due to prior exposure to it

Less commonly, in law, inure can mean that something takes effect.

The culture creates children inured to violence and gore.

inured = hardened (untroubled by something because one is so accustomed to it)

She has suffered so much misfortune already, she is inured to loss that would devastate others.

inured = hardened (untroubled by something because one is so accustomed to it)

I thought I was inured to her insults, but found myself crying as I drove home.

inured = hardened (untroubled by something because one is so accustomed to it)

She is inured to the cold.

inured = untroubled by something because one is so accustomed to it

Inured as I was to sick beds and death, this suspense grew and grew upon me.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

inured = untroubled by something because one is so accustomed to it

I never got inured to the jumping.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

inured = untroubled due to prior experience

Then Small God... Inured by the confirmation of his own inconsequence, he became resilient and truly indifferent.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things

inured = so accustomed to something unpleasant, that it is no longer troubling

Then you want me not to let some previous conviction inure the receptivity of my mind with regard to some strange matter.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

inure = harden

Her mustang had been inured to long and consistent travel over the desert.
Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
Only a woman came through, a woman in panic who had inured herself.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
To inure yourself against such a siren call, not just once but again and again—if I had not felt it myself, I would not have believed.
Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
"Wait!" shouted Milo, who'd thought of many inure questions he wanted to ask.
Norton Juster -- The Phantom Tollbooth
"I do not believe him," said Aziz; he was inured to practical jokes, even of this type.
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
The guards seemed to be inuring the men to this strange routine in preparation for something terrible.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
By suffering her to do whatever she pleases, I have enured her to a habit of being pleased to do whatever I like.
Henry Fielding -- Tom Jones
So these rough outlaws, inured to all the violence and baseness of their dishonest calling, rose to the challenging courage of a slip of a girl.
Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
Eleanor's countenance was dejected, yet sedate; and its composure spoke her inured to all the gloomy objects to which they were advancing.
Jane Austen -- Northanger Abbey
Sleep-deprived, undernourished, inured by now to the routine of constant death, the boys shuffled forward.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
Let thy increase of power and influence inure to the King who comes.
Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur
"However, it is so sometimes, and nothing happens that we expect," he added, with the repose of a man whom misfortune had inured rather than subdued.
Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd

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