Cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate.
1 We dip our infants in the rivers to inure them to cold.
2 Let thy increase of power and influence inure to the King who comes.
3 Or inure her to the impact on friends and loved ones.
4 I know arts that will inure your flesh against the passage of time.
5 The wives of great actor-managers must early inure themselves to champagne.
6 She found, however, that it was one to which she must inure herself.
7 That you'll need to inure yourself to what she'll be saying in the next week.
8 This I considered was true hunter's style, and I wished to inure myself to it.
9 These inure , have inured, shall inure , to the identities from which they sprang, or shall spring.
10 Glean thou thy past; that will alone inure
11 He's going to live on deck to inure himself to the rigours of the Arctic climate.
12 There are many puzzles and entanglements, temptations, trials, and perplexities, which tend to inure the missionary's virtue.
13 If there is any profit in the circulation of such notes, it ought to inure to the government.
14 And this larger trade and enhanced profit is presumed to inure to the joint benefit of the citizens.
15 Growing up in and around war zones and in high-crime environments will inure a person to risk and violence.
16 Should not the benefit of this circulation inure to the people, rather than to corporations, either state or national?
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