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Hola!
So... inure. This multi-defined word means:
v. accustom; strengthen; put to use; be useful
I was wondering about the usage... as I never seen it being used before, even though it's a synonym to rather common words.
Edit; typo... $#@$^%!!!
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I've seen it in the accustom sense. Usually in the phrase "become inured to …" Usually it has more of a "deadening" connotation. To grow accustomed to something might mean that you've grown to like it or feel comfortable with it, but "inured" more means that it doesn't bother you so much any more.
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but its also easy to read as streghtened..
his constant low humming used to be a source of aggrivation, but i am inured to to it now..
(its not just i doesn't bother me, or that i have become accustom, its i am a stronger person, i have learned to to not let it bother me..)
its a very common word in the NYTimes crosswords (or so its seems to me) and i have learned its many meaning from clues!
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Inure Easter bonnet, with all the flower sonnet.
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Ted, you are hereby sentenced to ten lashes with a wet noodle. I hope you can become inured to it.
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Inure = resigned?
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Ted, you are hereby sentenced to ten lashes with a wet noodle. I hope you can become inured to it.
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Inure = resigned?
Well, you'd inure the noodle in two senses of the word ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Noodles inure my senses! they really don't, though. Thanks for the input guys, gals. 
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I have only seen it used in the context of growing indifferent to something unpleasant, such as "...soldiers who are inured to suffering." I don't think I've ever seen it used to mean growing indifferent to something positive, such as "He had worked in the bakery so long that he had become inured to the smell of fresh baked bread."
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The phrase "inure to the benefit" is frequently used in law to mean "to take effect, to come to, to result in, to be applied to or to serve.
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What would I do without you, Father Steve? god help me, I don't know. Just one thing.... Australian Slang • Woody (also Woodie) 1. (car sales) one who is easily duped; a naive customer; one who gives in easily in the bargaining; 2. erect penis WHAT?
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WHAT?
'Fraid so... 
In American slang, woody means ( n ) A wood sided station wagon, but it also means definition #2 in the Aussie slang, morning wood being a subset of definition #2.
Edit for FS I thought you were inured to us by now 
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You people are BOTH naughty. I just thought that "Woody" seemed a lovely nickname derived from Logwood, much as the selfsame derived from Elwood. Shame, shame on the both of you.
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And hence(?) "Woody Woodpecker"
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The phrase "inure to the benefit" is frequently used in law to mean "to take effect, to come to, to result in, to be applied to or to serve.
They say a lot of funny things in law. Just a fossil usage.
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Just a fossil usage.
One time, a few summers ago, I took delivery of a new bright-red Mustang convertible. I drove up to the Episcopal church camp in it, with the top down and a Fleetwood Mac album blaring on the 80-watt stereo system. When I rolled into camp, a group of campers and their young-adult leader (about 20 years old) came over to the car. The kids said nice things about the old padre's wheels. The young leader said "Oh, dinosaur music."
Perhaps he and Faldage are related.
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The phrase "inure to the benefit" is frequently used in law to mean "to take effect, to come to, to result in, to be applied to or to serve.
They say a lot of funny things in law. Just a fossil usage.
Yeah, they do. By style manual it's tedious, and surmisal, fear or obfuscation.
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surmisal?  you've stumped 97% of my dictionaries with that word. Quote:
You people are BOTH naughty. I just thought that "Woody" seemed a lovely nickname derived from Logwood, much as the selfsame derived from Elwood. Shame, shame on the both of you.
Yeah, that was totally a jest ... Woody's great actually. The...the nickname.
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re:Woody's great actually. The...the nickname.
why does that make me think of the line from the movie the Full Monty-you know the one, when they guys were working on their costumes, and someone says--about the character nicknamed Horse:
"Horse by name and horse by nature."
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My woody's outside
covered with snow.
BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
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surmise/surmisal:
surmisal
\Sur*mis"al\, n. Surmise. [R.] --Milton.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
surmisal
n : a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence [syn: guess, conjecture, supposition, surmise, speculation, hypothesis]
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Inure Easter bonnet, with all the flower sonnet.
Funny, except the lyric is:
... with Olive Frill's sup on it. 
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Oh my. You're right! I wonder where I got that from?!?!?
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surmise/surmisal:
surmisal
\Sur*mis"al\, n. Surmise. [R.] --Milton.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
surmisal
n : a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence [syn: guess, conjecture, supposition, surmise, speculation, hypothesis]
Actually Sir Misal was Lancelot's evil twin.
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