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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)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

inure; indurate; harden

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

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