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Definition: Inured |
InuredAdjective1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inured" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: InuredSynonyms: enured (adj), hardened (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insensibility | Callous, thick-skinned, hard-nosed, pachydermatous, impervious; hardened; inured, casehardened; steeled against, proof against; imperturbable; (inexcitable); unfelt. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Inured |
| English words defined with "inured": enured ♦ harden, hardened, hardy ♦ inure ♦ stalwart, stout, sturdy. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | His conscience, inured to all possible assaults of adversity, might seem for ever impregnable. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | By the same computation they provided me with sheets, blankets, and coverlets, tolerable enough for one who had been so long inured to hardships as I. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Minorities | Liberia | Ritual murders for the purpose of obtaining body parts traditionally were committed by religious group members called "heart men." However, since the civil war, common criminals inured to killing also may sell body parts. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | The argument was made, as now, that its benefits inured to particular classes or sections. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Inured" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inured" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "inured": become inured ♦ become inured to. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "inured"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | karaistunut (hardened, inured to cold). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | gewöhnte (acclimated, familiarized, habituated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hozzáedződött. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inureday enseñarse (accustom oneself, become inured, learn). (various references) alışmak (acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accommodate oneself, addict, adjust, be in the habit of doing, become inured to, become reconciled to, drop into a habit, get accustomed to smth., get used to, orient oneself, orientate oneself, reconcile oneself to, school oneself to, season, take to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Inured" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enured, Idurd, incred, incured, incureed, indred, indured, inered, infred, infured, inhred, inired, injred, inkred, inlred, inmred, innred, innure, innured, inoed, inored, inpred, inqred, inradd, inre, inrred, inrue, insred, intred, inue, inur, inused, invred, inwred, inxred, inyred, inzred, Irureta. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "inured" (pronounced i'nyuh"rd) |
| 4 | -y uh" r d | cured, endured, matured, obscured, procured, secured, unsecured. |
| 3 | -uh" r d | allured, assured, ensured, insured, lured, moored, reassured, reinsured, toured, uninsured. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ruined. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: diner, indue, inure, nuder, nudie, under, urine. | |
-2 letters: deni, dine, dire, dune, dure, durn, ired, nerd, nide, nude, nurd, rein, rend, ride, rind, rude, rued, ruin, rune, unde. | |
-3 letters: den, die, din, due, dui, dun, end, ern, ire, red, rei, rid, rin, rue, run, urd, urn. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, en, er, id, in, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: dourine, dungier, inducer, injured, insured, intrude, inurned, neuroid, turdine, unaired, undried, unfired, unhired, unrimed, untired, untried, uranide, uridine. | |
+2 letters: decurion, denarius, dourines, enduring, enquired, gueridon, incurred, incurved, inducers, indulger, indurate, inpoured, inquired, insureds, intruded, intruder, intrudes, inturned, muraenid, reducing, reinduce, reinduct, retinued, reunited, rudiment, ruinated, sourdine, sundries, unbridle, unburied, underbid, underdid, underlie, underlip, underlit, underpin, ungirded, unhaired, unironed, unkinder, unmitred, unpaired, unpriced, unprimed, unprized, unraised, unrepaid, unriddle, unrifled, unrigged, unrinsed, unripped, untidier, unvaried, unwinder, uranides, uredines, uredinia, uridines, urinated. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 75 72 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. ..- .-. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01110101 01110010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n u r e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0075 0072 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)438087847170 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | suomi, suomalainen, finnisch, finn, finlandés, finés, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | saksalainen, deutsch, Deutsche, német, alemán, alman |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | unkarilainen, Ungar, magyar, húngaro, macarca, macar |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | espanjalainen, spanisch, spanyol, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turkkilainen, türkisch, török, turco, türkçe, türk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englantia, englantilainen, englisch, angol, inglés, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
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