Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See inure.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb See inure.

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  • verb to inure; to become accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant due to constant exposure.
  • verb law to have effect.

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Examples

  • The profits and honors which will result from a successful performance of such a duty, are attached to no sinecure, and we are perfectly willing that they should be left to "enure" to some abler pen than that which we wield.

    N. Carolina University Magazine No Author 1844

  • Please enure any mob you harangue into violence observes these and other important safety protocols.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Just got back from Avatar. 2010

  • The father of the current Batgirl taught her to fight but not to read, and shot her in fleshy parts to enure her to the pain.

    Robin Has the Worst Dad in the World 2008

  • The father of the current Batgirl taught her to fight but not to read, and shot her in fleshy parts to enure her to the pain.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • In the moons case it will help keep up its glow if the sun fades, might also enure the LUX factor we receive from the moon is greater, thereby reducing the need for driving lights on cars and street lighting, just think of all the electricity we could save.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Nbob wins… 2010

  • Just like Eisenhower's interstate highway system, the capital projects coming out of the stimulus plan and the Obama budgets are designed to create long-term wealth, and assets that will enure to the benefit of the next generation and the generation after that.

    Alan Fein: Generational Theft? 2009

  • Going after the government, IOW Bush is the best way to enure this doesn't happen.

    Bob Ostertag: Reality Time at MyBarackObama.com 2008

  • Hollywood A-listers -- Directors, lead actors, writers and others will soon have to bear more of the risk and enure pay cuts if their movie turns out to be a dog.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Hollywood Studios Rewriting Pay System for Their A-Listers 2006

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Hollywood Studios Rewriting Pay System for Their A-Listers'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Hollywood A-listers -- Directors, lead actors, writers and others will soon have to bear more of the risk and enure pay cuts if their movie turns out to be a dog.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Hollywood Studios Rewriting Pay System for Their A-Listers 2006

  • Press Secretary is where confident young whelps cut their teeth, enure their hides to criticism, and move on to K Street.

    Good Choice 2006

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  • en⋅ure  in-yoor, i-noor

    –verb (used with object)

    1.

    to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually fol. by to): inured to cold.

    –verb (used without object)

    2.

    to come into use; take or have effect.

    3.

    to become beneficial or advantageous.

    November 6, 2009

  • alternate definition

    enure -- a polite way of saying 'up yours!'

    November 6, 2009

  • an alternative spelling of inure.

    November 6, 2009

  • rolig, thanks for pointing that out. It appears that inure is the primary spelling.

    November 9, 2009