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Word of the Day for Saturday, September 12, 2009inure \in-YOOR\, transitive verb:1. To make accustomed or used to something painful, difficult, or inconvenient; to harden; to habituate; as, "inured to drudgery and distress. intransitive verb: 1. 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. They were a hard-driven, hardworking crowd inured to the hardest living, and they found their recreation in hard drinking and hard fighting. How does one become inured to unpredictable moments of helplessness? At school, he repeatedly jabbed the nib of his pen into his hand, wanting to inure himself to agony.Inure derives from prefix in-, "in" + obsolete ure, "use, work," from Old French uevre, "work," from Latin opera, "trouble, pains, exertion," from opus, "work." Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for inure | |||||||||
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