"inure" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ɪˈnjʊə/ [UK], /ɪˈnjɔː/ [UK], /ɪˈnjʊɹ/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-inure.wav Forms: inures [present, singular, third-person], inuring [participle, present], inured [participle, past], inured [past]
Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), (UK) -ɔː Etymology: From Middle English inuren, equivalent to in- + ure (“practise, exercise”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|inuren}} Middle English inuren, {{pre|en|in-|ure|gloss2=practise, exercise}} in- + ure (“practise, exercise”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} inure (third-person singular simple present inures, present participle inuring, simple past and past participle inured)
  1. (transitive) To cause someone to become accustomed to something that requires prolonged or repeated tolerance of one or more unpleasantries. Tags: transitive Synonyms: habituate, harden, toughen Translations (to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure): ἐθίζω (ethízō) (Ancient Greek), οἰκειόω (oikeióō) (Ancient Greek), приучвам (priučvam) (Bulgarian), verharden (Dutch), harden (Dutch), stalen (Dutch), gewennen (Dutch), siedättää (Finnish), totuttaa (Finnish), karaista (Finnish), endurcir (French), aguerrir (French), habituer (French), abhärten (German), an gewöhnen (etwas) (German), εξοικειώνω (exoikeióno) (Greek), εγκλιματίζω (egklimatízo) (Greek), assuefare (Italian), abituare (Italian), acclimare (Italian), acclimatare (Italian), umanga (Maori), acostumar (Portuguese), habituar (Portuguese), endurecer (Portuguese), приучать (priučatʹ) (Russian), acostumbrar (Spanish), habituar (Spanish), avezar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-inure-en-verb-yOL7v65G Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with in-, Pages with 2 entries, Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 61 11 28 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with in-: 29 35 36 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 69 18 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 57 18 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 65 23 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 61 27 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 62 22 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 59 26 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 61 27 11 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 57 25 18 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 66 21 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 58 15 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 68 19 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 68 19 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 62 19 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 61 27 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 60 28 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 59 26 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 68 19 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 66 22 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 62 28 10 Disambiguation of 'to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure': 92 6 2
  2. (intransitive, chiefly law) To take effect, to be operative. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Law Translations (to take effect, or to benefit someone): влизам в сила (vlizam v sila) (Bulgarian), in voege treden (Dutch), iemand begunstigen (Dutch), rasittaa (Finnish), prendre effet (French)
    Sense id: en-inure-en-verb-KUUxC8AN Categories (other): English terms prefixed with in- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with in-: 29 35 36 Topics: law Disambiguation of 'to take effect, or to benefit someone': 6 91 3
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To commit. Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-inure-en-verb-W3AC~tJU Categories (other): English terms prefixed with in- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with in-: 29 35 36
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: enure

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Nevill Coghill, The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 465",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2005, Tony Judt, “Culture Wars”, in Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945, London: Vintage Books, published 2010",
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          "text": "This conflict produces a psychic numbing that inures us to the realities of being tracked, parsed, mined, and modified.",
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          "ref": "2023 September 26, Heather Knight, quoting Daniel Lurie, “Levi Strauss Heir to Challenge Mayor London Breed of San Francisco”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Nevill Coghill, The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 465",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World",
          "text": "As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Tony Judt, “Culture Wars”, in Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945, London: Vintage Books, published 2010",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 1, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism",
          "text": "This conflict produces a psychic numbing that inures us to the realities of being tracked, parsed, mined, and modified.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 September 26, Heather Knight, quoting Daniel Lurie, “Levi Strauss Heir to Challenge Mayor London Breed of San Francisco”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "“Our kids have come to a place where they’re inured,” he said. “It’s almost like they accept it, which is not OK.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause someone to become accustomed to something that requires prolonged or repeated tolerance of one or more unpleasantries."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "accustomed",
          "accustomed"
        ],
        [
          "unpleasantries",
          "unpleasantry"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To cause someone to become accustomed to something that requires prolonged or repeated tolerance of one or more unpleasantries."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "habituate"
        },
        {
          "word": "harden"
        },
        {
          "word": "toughen"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "en:Law"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "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\".",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take effect, to be operative."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "effect",
          "effect"
        ],
        [
          "operative",
          "operative"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, chiefly law) To take effect, to be operative."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To commit."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "commit",
          "commit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, obsolete) To commit."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/ɪˈnjʊə/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪˈnjɔː/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪˈnjʊɹ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʊə(ɹ)"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "(UK) -ɔː"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "enure"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "priučvam",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "приучвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "verharden"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "harden"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "stalen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "gewennen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "siedättää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "totuttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "karaista"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "endurcir"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "aguerrir"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "habituer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "abhärten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "an gewöhnen (etwas)"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "exoikeióno",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "εξοικειώνω"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "egklimatízo",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "εγκλιματίζω"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "ethízō",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "ἐθίζω"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "oikeióō",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "οἰκειόω"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "assuefare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "abituare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "acclimare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "acclimatare"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "umanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "acostumar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "habituar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "endurecer"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "priučatʹ",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "приучать"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "acostumbrar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "habituar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to cause to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure",
      "word": "avezar"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "vlizam v sila",
      "sense": "to take effect, or to benefit someone",
      "word": "влизам в сила"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to take effect, or to benefit someone",
      "word": "in voege treden"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to take effect, or to benefit someone",
      "word": "iemand begunstigen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to take effect, or to benefit someone",
      "word": "rasittaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to take effect, or to benefit someone",
      "word": "prendre effet"
    }
  ],
  "word": "inure"
}

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