English Dictionary

inure

/ɪˈnjʊə/

verb

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

The harsh conditions in the desert have inured the nomads to the extreme heat.

意味（1）

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

Matcht with as valiant men, and of as cleane a might, / As skilfull to commaund, and as inur’d to fight.

意味（2）

(intransitive, chiefly law) To take effect, to be operative.

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, cryptically, to inure to the benefit of Jim.

意味（3）

(transitive, obsolete) To commit.

He […] gan that ladie strongly to appele / Of many haynous crymes by her enured.