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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INU'RE, v.t. [in and ure. Ure signifies use, practice, in old English.]
1. To habituate; to accustom; to apply or expose in use or practice till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience, or makes little impression. Thus a man inures his body to labor and toil,till he sustains that which would destroy a body unaccustomed to it. So we inure ourselves to cold or heat. Warriors are inured to blood,and seamen are inured to hardships and deprivations.
INU'RE, v.i. To pass in 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 of the grantee, or it inures to their benefit.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold" [syn: inure, harden, indurate]

Merriam Webster's

verb (inured; inuring) Etymology: Middle English enuren, from in ure customary, from putten in ure to use, put into practice, part translation of Anglo-French mettre en ovre, en uevre Date: 15th century transitive verb to accustom to accept something undesirable <children inured to violence> intransitive verb to become of advantage <policies that inure to the benefit of employees> • inurement noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. 1 tr. (often in passive; foll. by to) accustom (a person) to something esp. unpleasant. 2 intr. Law come into operation; take effect. Derivatives: inurement n. Etymology: ME f. AF eneurer f. phr. en eure (both unrecorded) in use or practice, f. en in + OF e(u)vre work f. L opera

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Inure In*ure", 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. ``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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Inure In*ure", v. i. 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.]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. Habituate, accustom, use, familiarize, train, harden. II. v. n. Be applied, come into use, take effect.

Moby Thesaurus

acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accustom, adapt, adjust, break, break in, brutalize, callous, case harden, condition, confirm, discipline, domesticate, domesticize, establish, familiarize, fix, gentle, habituate, harden, housebreak, indurate, naturalize, orient, orientate, ossify, season, steel, tame, train, use, wont