MEANING
1. To make someone accustomed to hardship, discomfort, or another unwelcome experience.
2. To become effective or operate for someone's benefit in a legal or formal arrangement.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- inure someone to hardship
- inured to pain
- inured to criticism
On the page
Years of night duty had inured her to exhaustion, not to the children's cries.
He tried to inure himself to rejection before submitting the manuscript.
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Word forms
- Base
- inure
- Past tense
- inured
- Past participle
- inured
- Present participle
- inuring
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- inure
- Present continuous
- am/is/are inuring
- Present perfect
- have/has inured
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been inuring
- Past
- inured
- Past continuous
- was/were inuring
- Past perfect
- had inured
- Past perfect continuous
- had been inuring
- Future
- will inure
- Future continuous
- will be inuring
- Future perfect
- will have inured
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been inuring
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: inure; inures; inured; inured; inuring Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: inures.
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