different between immured vs inure

English

Etymology

See etymology at immure.

Verb

immured

1. simple past tense and past participle of immure

Adjective

immured (comparative more immured, superlative most immured)

1. imprisoned or confined.
2. buried within or built into a wall, whether respectfully (as with shrines, monuments, or tombs) or as torture (if buried alive).
3. walled in.
4. (crystallography and geology, of impurities in a growing crystal) trapped or captured (within the surrounding matrix).

Anagrams

• drummie

English

Alternative forms

• enure

Etymology

From in- +? ure (“practise, exercise”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??nj??/, /??nj??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??nj??/

Verb

inure (third-person singular simple present inures, present participle inuring, simple past and past participle inured)

1. (transitive) To cause someone to become accustomed to something that requires prolonged or repeated tolerance of one or more unpleasantries. [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: habituate, harden, toughen

   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 12 p. 196[1]:

     Matcht with as valiant men, and of as cleane a might,

     As skilfull to commaund, and as inur’d to fight.

   • 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 6

     To none of these evidences of a fearful tragedy of a long dead day did little Tarzan give but passing heed. His wild jungle life had inured him to the sight of dead and dying animals, and had he known that he was looking upon the remains of his own father and mother he would have been no more greatly moved.

   • 1996, Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

     As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils.
2. (intransitive, chiefly law) To take effect, to be operative. [from 16th c.]

3. (transitive, obsolete) To commit.

Translations

Anagrams

• Nueir, ruine, urine

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /i?nu?.re/, [??nu???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /i?nu.re/, [i?nu???]

Verb

in?re

1. second-person singular present active imperative of in?r?