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Inure

//ɪˈnjʊə(ɹ)// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To cause someone to become accustomed to something that requires prolonged or repeated tolerance of one or more unpleasantries. transitive

    "Matcht with as valiant men, and of as cleane a might, / As skilfull to commaund, and as inur’d to fight."

  2. 2
    cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate wordnet
  3. 3
    To take effect, to be operative. intransitive

    "Jim buys a beach house that includes the right to travel across the neighbor's property to get to the water. That right of way is said "to inure to the benefit of Jim"."

  4. 4
    To commit. obsolete, transitive

    "He […] gan that ladie strongly to appele / Of many haynous crymes by her enured."

Etymology

From Middle English inuren, equivalent to in- + ure (“practise, exercise”).

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