Inure
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ɪˈnjÊŠÉ™/, /ɪˈnjÉ”Ë/
- US IPA: /ɪˈnjʊɹ/
Full definition of inure
Verb
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to become accustomed (to something); to habituate. from 16th c.
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 6To 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.
- 1977, Geoffrey Chaucer, , Penguin Classics, p. 465: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. - 1996, Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted WorldAs Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils.
- (intransitive, chiefly legal) To take effect, to be operative. from 16th c.
- Jim buys a beach house that includes the right to travel across the neighbor's property to get to the water. That right of way is said, cryptically, "to inure to the benefit of Jim".