INURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inure mean? 

• INURE (verb)
  The verb INURE has 1 sense:

1. cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate

  Familiarity information: INURE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INURE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they inure    ... he / she / it inures   
Past simple: inured   
Past participle: inured   
-ing form: inuring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

harden; indurate; inure

Context example:

He was inured to the cold

Hypernyms (to "inure" is one way to...):

accustom; habituate (make psychologically or physically used (to something))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "inure"):

callous; cauterise; cauterize (make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals)

brace oneself for; prepare for; steel oneself against; steel onself for (prepare mentally or emotionally for something unpleasant)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

 Context examples 

A younger son, you know, must be inured to self-denial and dependence.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Inured as I was to sick beds and death, this suspense grew, and grew upon me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She found, however, that it was one to which she must inure herself.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Eleanor's countenance was dejected, yet sedate; and its composure spoke her inured to all the gloomy objects to which they were advancing.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I commenced by inuring my body to hardship.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

By the same computation, they provided me with sheets, blankets, and coverlets, tolerable enough for one who had been so long inured to hardships.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Rebecca's cookery and Rebecca's waiting, and Betsey's eating at table without restraint, and pulling everything about as she chose, were what Fanny herself was not yet enough inured to for her often to make a tolerable meal.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Will you walk this way, ma'am? said the girl; and I followed her across a square hall with high doors all round: she ushered me into a room whose double illumination of fire and candle at first dazzled me, contrasting as it did with the darkness to which my eyes had been for two hours inured; when I could see, however, a cosy and agreeable picture presented itself to my view.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

By remaining in the neighbourhood, I am become inured to it.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)