inure
/ɪˈnjʊə
/ /ɪˈnjɔː/verb [with object]
1 (usually be inured to) Accustom (someone) to something, especially something unpleasant: these children have been inured to violence...
- Naturally, Critser found all this perturbing but, like most people, he was inured to the daily diet of doom and gloom fed to him by the press - all the more so since he belongs to its massed ranks himself.
- We are perhaps inured to some of its excesses, but I don't think any Scot does not find it reprehensible.
- After seven years in the firing line with Rangers and three-and-a-half years prising out body pellets at Goodison Park, Smith is inured to criticism.
Synonyms
harden, toughen, season, temper, condition;
accustom, habituate, familiarize, acclimatize, adjust, adapt, attune;
desensitize, dehumanize, brutalize, case-harden
rare indurate
2 Law variant spelling of enure (sense 1).Private property is in essence a cluster of rights inuring to the benefit of the owner, freely exchangeable in accordance with the terms of private agreements, and recognized and protected by common consent....
- It inures to the benefit of the victim and the victim's family.
- The higher charge didn't inure to the benefit of the defendants in that case.
Derivatives
inurement
/ /ɪˈnjɔːm(ə)nt / noun ...- The basic prohibition against inurement is found in the Code and is further refined in related regulations.
- Any amount of inurement, no matter how small, can jeopardize an organization's tax-exempt status.
- The IJA is a charitable organization and private benefits and inurements are prohibited by law.
Origin
Late Middle English inure, enure, from an Anglo-Norman French phrase meaning 'in use or practice', from en 'in' + Old French euvre 'work' (from Latin opera).
Rhymes
- director's chair
- director's cut
- directorship
- directory
- directory assistance
- directory enquiries
- direct product
- direct proportion
- direct ratio
- direct response
- directress
- directrice
- directrix
- direct rule
- direct speech
- direct sum
- direct tax
- direful
- direfully
- direly
- direness
- dire wolf
- dirge
- dirgeful
- dirgelike