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
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