| 单词 | inured |
| 释义 | inured (once / 4702 pages) adj If you have gotten so many mosquito bites in your life that they no longer bother you, you have become inured to them. This means you have become accustomed to tolerating them. This adjective is derived from the 16th-century phrase in ure, meaning “in use” or “in practice.” When you are inured to something, you have probably had a lot of persistent exposure to it, and it’s usually something negative. People can become inured to pain, inured to violence, and even inured to the sound of a little yappy dog that won’t stop barking. WORD FAMILYinure: inured, inures, inuring USAGE EXAMPLESTheir parents, of course, were no less bereaved for being more inured, and they were left without even snapshots to cherish. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) The good news is that, despite the psychological and physical wounds that sustained terrorist campaigns inflict, societies can become inured to them. Economist(Sep 01, 2016) “You actually do become inured to it. But it’s omnipresent.” The New Yorker(Oct 19, 2016) adj made tough by habitual exposure "a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind- inured"- Robert Lynd "our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"- V.S.Pritchett Syn enured, hardened tough, toughened physically toughened |
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