Associations to the word «Inure»

Wiktionary

INURE, verb. (transitive) To cause (someone) to become accustomed (to something); to habituate. [from 16th c.]
INURE, verb. (intransitive) (chiefly legal) To take effect, to be operative. [from 16th c.]

Dictionary definition

INURE, verb. Cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky