Usually means: Accustom to something, especially unpleasant.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. inure: Merriam-Webster
  2. inure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inure: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inure: Vocabulary.com
  6. inure: Wordnik
  7. inure: Wiktionary
  8. inure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. inure: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. inure: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. inure: Dictionary.com
  12. inure: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Inure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. inure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. inure: Rhymezone
  16. Inure: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. inure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. inure: FreeDictionary.org
  19. inure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. inure: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. inure: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. inure: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. inure: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. inure: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. inure: Legal dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inure: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inure: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (inure)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause someone to become accustomed to something that requires prolonged or repeated tolerance of one or more unpleasantries.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, chiefly law) To take effect, to be operative.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To commit.

Similar:
harden, enure, flesh, accustom, endure, get used, season, wont, habituate, accept, more...

Opposite:
cure, ameliorate, improve

Types:
to harden, to toughen, to insulate, to immunize, to habituate, to accustom, more...

Phrases:
inure to, more...

Adjectives:
wise, long, best, net, own


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Similar:
harden, enure, flesh, accustom, endure, get used, season, wont, habituate, accept, more...

Opposite:
cure, ameliorate, improve

Types:
to harden, to toughen, to insulate, to immunize, to habituate, to accustom, more...

Phrases:
inure to, more...

Adjectives:
wise, long, best, net, own



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