inure

Meaning

  1. (transitive) To cause someone to become accustomed to something that requires prolonged or repeated tolerance of one or more unpleasantries.
  2. (intransitive) To take effect, to be operative.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To commit.

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɪˈnjʊə/
Etymology

In summary

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

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