What is the meaning of inured?

verb

  • Cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate.
    • usage: "He was inured to the cold"

adjective

  • Made tough by habitual exposure."hardened fishermen"; "a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured- Robert Lynd; "our successors... May be graver, more inured and equable men- V. S. Pritchett
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