inure
verb
[ ɪˈnjʊə ]
• accustom (someone) to something, especially something unpleasant.
• "these children have been inured to violence"
Similar:
harden,
toughen,
season,
temper,
condition,
accustom,
habituate,
familiarize,
acclimatize,
adjust,
adapt,
attune,
desensitize,
dehumanize,
brutalize,
case-harden,
indurate,
• variant spelling of enure (sense 1).
Origin:
late Middle English inure, enure, from an Anglo-Norman French phrase meaning ‘in use or practice’, from en ‘in’ + Old French euvre ‘work’ (from Latin opera ).
