inured; inuring
: to accustom to accept something undesirable
children inured to violence
: to become of advantage
policies that inure to the benefit of employees
Examples of inure in a Sentence
Does violence on television inure children to violence in real life?
the hardship of army training inured her to the rigors of desert warfare
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Maybe at this point I’m just inured to the idiocy of it all?
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Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2024
National Socialism, with its unscrupulous methods of deception, took care not to show how radical its aims were until the world was inured to them.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 25 Nov. 2024
The fact that North Korea has had nuclear weapons for so long (its first nuclear test was in 2006) has inured analysts and policymakers to the gravity of the threat.
—Sue Mi Terry, Foreign Affairs, 25 Oct. 2022
To live and work in New York in the 1850s was to be inured to a culture of innovation and novelty—of exciting new ways of thinking about the project of what literature and art could look like and who could compose it.
—Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 9 Oct. 2024
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Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2024
National Socialism, with its unscrupulous methods of deception, took care not to show how radical its aims were until the world was inured to them.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 25 Nov. 2024
The fact that North Korea has had nuclear weapons for so long (its first nuclear test was in 2006) has inured analysts and policymakers to the gravity of the threat.
—Sue Mi Terry, Foreign Affairs, 25 Oct. 2022
To live and work in New York in the 1850s was to be inured to a culture of innovation and novelty—of exciting new ways of thinking about the project of what literature and art could look like and who could compose it.
—Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 9 Oct. 2024
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“Inure.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inure. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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inure
verb
in·ure
in-ˈ(y)u̇(ə)r 
inured; inuring
1
: to make less sensitive : harden
inured to cold
2
Legal Definition
inure
intransitive verb
in·ure
i-ˈnu̇r, -ˈnyu̇r
inured; inuring
: to become of advantage
—usually used in the phrase inure to the benefit of
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