To “inure” (in-YOOR) – from the Latin for “trouble, pains, exertion” – is to accustom to something painful, difficult, or inconvenient.
Example, as used by Allen Barra in Inventing Wyatt Earp): “They were a hard-driven, hardworking crowd inured to the hardest living, and they found their recreation in hard drinking and hard fighting.”
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