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inure.

To cause someone to become accustomed to something that requires prolonged or repeated tolerance of one or more unpleasantries.

5 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/ɪˈnjʊə(ɹ)//ɪˈnjɔː(ɹ)//ɪˈnjʊɹ/US/ɪˈnʊɹ/US
  1. To cause someone to become accustomed to something that requires prolonged or repeated tolerance of one or more unpleasantries.

    transitive
  2. To take effect, to be operative.

    intransitive
    Jim buys a beach house that includes the right to travel across the neighbor's property to get to the water. That right of way is said "to inure to the benefit of Jim".
  3. To commit.

    obsolete · transitive
Where this word comes from

From Middle English inuren, equivalent to in- + ure (“practise, exercise”).

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