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Definition
cause to become untroubled by something unpleasant due to prior exposure to itLess 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.
- I thought I was inured to her insults, but found myself crying as I drove home.
- She is inured to the cold.
- Inured as I was to sick beds and death, this suspense grew and grew upon me.Bram Stoker -- Dracula
- Then Small God... Inured by the confirmation of his own inconsequence, he became resilient and truly indifferent.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- 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
- 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
- Most of it was coming from South Africa and you could only see piles of bodies being burned so many times before you just got inured.John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
inured = hardened (untroubled by something because one is so accustomed to it)
inured = hardened (untroubled by something because one is so accustomed to it)
inured = untroubled by something because one is so accustomed to it
inured = untroubled by something because one is so accustomed to it
inured = so accustomed to something unpleasant, that it is no longer troubling
inure = harden