inure
/ɪˈnjʊɹ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.90 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To cause someone to become accustomed to something that requires prolonged or repeated tolerance of one or more unpleasantries.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Matcht with as valiant men, and of as cleane a might, / As skilfull to commaund, and as inur’d to fight."
- "To none of these evidences of a fearful tragedy of a long dead day did little Tarzan give but passing heed. His wild jungle life had inured him to the sight of dead and dying animals, and had he known that he was looking upon the remains of his own father and mother he would have been no more greatly moved."
- "Your insults to myself can be endured, / I am a philosopher and am inured. / But there are insults that I will not swallow / That you have levelled at our gods."
- "As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils."
- "Young people all across the continent were inured to a level of public brutality, in words and actions, that would have shocked their nineteenth-century forebears."
- "This conflict produces a psychic numbing that inures us to the realities of being tracked, parsed, mined, and modified."
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Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪˈnjʊɹ/