INURED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inured mean? 

• INURED (adjective)
  The adjective INURED has 1 sense:

1. made tough by habitual exposure

  Familiarity information: INURED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INURED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made tough by habitual exposure

Synonyms:

enured; hardened; inured

Context example:

our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men

Similar:

tough; toughened (physically toughened)

 Context examples 

Inured as I was to sick beds and death, this suspense grew, and grew upon me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A younger son, you know, must be inured to self-denial and dependence.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

By remaining in the neighbourhood, I am become inured to it.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Eleanor's countenance was dejected, yet sedate; and its composure spoke her inured to all the gloomy objects to which they were advancing.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

By the same computation, they provided me with sheets, blankets, and coverlets, tolerable enough for one who had been so long inured to hardships.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Rebecca's cookery and Rebecca's waiting, and Betsey's eating at table without restraint, and pulling everything about as she chose, were what Fanny herself was not yet enough inured to for her often to make a tolerable meal.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Will you walk this way, ma'am? said the girl; and I followed her across a square hall with high doors all round: she ushered me into a room whose double illumination of fire and candle at first dazzled me, contrasting as it did with the darkness to which my eyes had been for two hours inured; when I could see, however, a cosy and agreeable picture presented itself to my view.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)