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English Dictionary: inured	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
inured adj made tough by habitual exposure; "hardened fishermen"; "a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- Robert Lynd; "our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"- V.S.Pritchett Synonym(s): enured, inured, hardened
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Inure \Inure"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Inuring}.] [From pref. in- in + ure use, work. See {Ure} use, practice, {Opera}, and cf. {Manure}.] To apply in use; to train; to discipline; to use or accustom till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience; to harden; to habituate; to practice habitually. [bd]To inure our prompt obedience.[b8] --Milton. He . . . did inure them to speak little. --Sir T. North. Inured* and exercised in learning. --Robynson (More's Utopia). The poor, inured to drudgery and distress. --Cowper.