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inure
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Definition:to become accustomed to something considered unpleasant
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I was inured to a wandering life, had no family, nor many relations; nor, however rich, had I contracted fresh acquaintance; and though I had sold my estate in the Brazils, yet I could not keep that country out of my head, and had a great mind to be upon the wing again;
Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe
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A younger son, you know, must be inured to self-denial and dependence.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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I never got inured to the jumping.
John Knowles. A Separate Peace, p.37 (1959)
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he soon became inured to the climate, having been for many years employed in the north.
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne. Memoirs of Napoleon — Volume 11
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So, too, Odette, certain of seeing him come to her in a few days, as tender and submissive as before, and plead with her for a reconciliation, became inured, was no longer afraid of displeasing him, or even of making him angry, and refused him, whenever it suited her, the favours by which he set most store.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] (1913)
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