INURED

enured, inured, hardened

(adjective) 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

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

inured

simple past tense and past participle of inure

Anagrams

• driuen, indure, nudier, ruined, urined

Source: Wiktionary


INURE

In*ure", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inured; p. pr. & vb. n. Inuring.] Etym: [From pref. in- in + ure use, work. See Ure use, practice, Opera, and cf. Manure.]

Definition: 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. "To inure our prompt obedience." 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.

In*ure", v. i.

Definition: To pass into use; to take or have effect; to be applied; to serve to the use or benefit of; as, a gift of lands inures to the heirs. [Written also enure.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

12 June 2025

RAREFACTION

(noun) a decrease in the density of something; “a sound wave causes periodic rarefactions in its medium”


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