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INURE (in-YOOR)

To habituate; to accustom to something

Related crosswordese: ENURE

Common clues: Habituate; Harden; Toughen; Get used (to); Condition; Acclimate; Accustom; Accustom to hardship;

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To habituate; to accustom; to apply or expose in use or practice till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience, or makes little impression. Thus a man inures his body to labor and toil, till he sustains that which would destroy a body unaccustomed to it. So we inure ourselves to cold or heat. Warriors are inured to blood, and seamen are inured to hardships and deprivations.

-from Webster’s 1828 Dictionary



Man With Load”, Robert Blackburn, 1936


What is comprehended in the march of a great army under the burning Southern suns of June and July? Will our rugged farmers who sweat in the harvest fields, or the tradesmen who daily put forth strong muscular effort in their ordinary business, beleive me when assuring them that, were the strongest from among their number for the first time to be arrayed with what each soldier daily and for many hours and many miles carries - knapsack, haversack, gun, ammunition pouch, tin cup, canteen, coffee boiler, with various other etceteras, weighing in all about as much as a bushel of wheat - and he, thus accoutered, started in the middle of a hot July day, on a dusty road, amid a thick and smothering crowd of men, horses, mules, and wagons, in less than a mile he would fall prostrate to the earth, and perhaps never be able to rise again. It has, however, taken two years of terrible practice to inure these iron men to undergo this wonderful physical endurance. Nor must it be forgotten that, in the hardening process, two out of three have sunk under the toil and exposure, and have disappeared from the army.

-from The Lost Diaries of the American Civil War


INURE (146) 35 Tu+ >1 06 Habituate ENURE

27 Tu+ >1 08 Accustom ENURE

24 We- >1 07 Harden ENURE STEEL

13 We+ >1 08 Toughen ENURE STEEL

10 Tu+ >1 05 Get used (to) ADAPT ENURE

5 Th- >1 07 Condition ORDER SHAPE STATE

4 Th- >1 06 Accustom (to) ENURE

4 Tu- >1 01 Accustom to hardship ENURE

4 Th+ >1 86 Take effect SETIN

4 We- >1 04 Toughen up

3 Mo+ >1 92 Acclimate ADAPT

3 Tu- >1 06 Become accustomed (to) ADAPT ENURE

2 Fr >1 02 Caseharden

00 Get used to ENURE

2 We- >1 03 Make used (to) ENURE

1 We CSy 05 Become accustomed

1 Mo NYT 94 Become used (to)

1 We CSy 97 Get accustomed

00 Get tough

01 Make accustomed

02 Make used to

1 Sa NYT 06 Naturalize

1 Th CHE 09 Season SPICE

1 Th LAT 08 Take effect, in legalspeak