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- Dictionaryinure/ɪˈnjʊə/
verb
- 1. accustom (someone) to something, especially something unpleasant: "these children have been inured to violence"
- 2. variant spelling of enure
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The meaning of INURE is to accustom to accept something undesirable. How to use inure in a sentence.
INURE SOMEONE TO SOMETHING definition: 1. If you become inured to something unpleasant, you become familiar with it and able to accept and…. Learn more.
Inure definition: to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to). See examples of INURE used in a sentence.
inure in American English. (ɪnˈjʊr ; ɪˈnʊr ) verb transitive Word forms: inˈured or inˈuring. 1. to make accustomed to something difficult, painful, etc.; habituate. verb intransitive. 2. to come into use or take effect. sick pay inures from the first day of illness.
To inure is to get used to something difficult or unpleasant. If after spending an hour in your brother's room, you stop noticing the stinky-sock smell, you have become inured to the odor.
Definition of inure verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Jun 2, 2024 · inure (third-person singular simple present inures, present participle inuring, simple past and past participle inured) To cause someone to become accustomed to something that requires prolonged or repeated tolerance of one or more unpleasantries. [from 16th c.] Synonyms: habituate, harden, toughen
1. to make accustomed to something difficult, painful, etc.; habituate. [...] 2. to come into use or take effect. [...] More. Conjugations of 'inure' present simple: I inure, you inure [...] past simple: I inured, you inured [...] past participle: inured. More. Synonyms of 'inure' • acclimatize, condition, accustom, familiarize [...] More.
to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually fol. by to): inured to cold. v.i. to come into use; take or have effect. to become beneficial or advantageous. Also, enure. Latin opera, plural of opus work; compare French oeuvre. Anglo-French en ure in use, at work, equivalent. to en in + ure.
adjective. — + to. Are children inured to violence? We quickly became inured to his sarcasm. INURE meaning: to cause (someone) to be less affected by something unpleasant to cause (someone) to be less sensitive to something unpleasant.
