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UK
/ɪnjˈɔːd/
]
[ US /ˌɪnˈjʊɹd/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈjʊɹd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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made tough by habitual exposure
hardened fishermen
our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men
a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured
How To Use inured In A Sentence
- Bowed down with old age, uninured to the bearing of burdens. Satyricon
- We are so inured to the laxness and corruptness, that we defend the bullies and liars.
- a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured
- The routinization of this kind of scandal in academia has almost inured us to the possibility of recourse.
- Then there was the world of the camp: a cruel and hard existence during which he became increasingly inured to the pain of those he governed. Times, Sunday Times
- Torrents of rain drenched them to the skin, but inured to hardships they rejoiced in the favor which the storm bestowed. Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest
- After seven years in the firing line with Rangers and three-and-a-half years prising out body pellets at Goodison Park, Smith is inured to criticism.
- Is it a good thing that over the years we have become inured to it, hardly able to muster a twitch of outrage?
- The frightening risks taken by clandestine immigrants are so common we are inured to them.
- Mouths open, not yet inured to the sight, many adopt the famous sculpture's contrapposto.