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INURE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
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
Example:
He was inured to the cold
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
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
