inure

== English == === Alternative forms === enure === Etymology === From Middle English inuren, equivalent to in- +‎ ure (“practise, exercise”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) (without the pour–poor merger) IPA(key): /ɪˈnjʊə(ɹ)/ (pour–poor merger) IPA(key): /ɪˈnjɔː(ɹ)/ (US) IPA(key): /ɪˈnjʊɹ/, /ɪˈnʊɹ/ Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), (UK) -ɔː === Verb === inure (third-person singular simple present inures, present participle inuring, simple past and past participle inured) (transitive) To cause someone to become accustomed to something that requires prolonged or repeated tolerance of one or more unpleasantries. [from 16th c.] Synonyms: habituate, harden, toughen (intransitive, chiefly law) To take effect, to be operative. [from 16th c.] Synonym: accrue 1979, Bernard D. Reams (Jr.), Internal Revenue Acts of the United States, 1909-1950 (page 231) If I understand the process correctly, cash refunds are turned into the United States Treasury, but price reductions inure to the particular department and increase its appropriations by whatever they collect. (transitive, obsolete) To commit. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Nueir, ruine, urine == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪˈnuː.rɛ] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [iˈnuː.re] === Verb === inūre second-person singular present active imperative of inūrō