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enure

enure verb: to inure; to make accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant due to constant exposure.

Verb

enure (third-person singular simple present enures, present participle enuring, simple past and past participle enured)

  1. (transitive) To inure; to make accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant due to constant exposure.
  2. (intransitive) To take effect, to be operative; used with to.
    • All our striving enures to our own spiritual benefit.1934, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Commentary on The Holy Qur'an, note 3428 on 29:6
    • The position of the individual as a subject of international law has often been obscured by the failure to observe the distinction between the recognition, in an international instrument of rights enuring to the benefit of the individual and the enforceability of these rights at his instance.1995, Rosalyn Higgins, Problems and Process: International Law and How We Use It, page 53

Forms of enure

third-person singular presentenures
present participleenuring
past participleenured
pastenured

Origin of enure

From en- + ure. Variant form of inure.

Words formed from enure

Questions about enure

What does enure mean?
Enure means to inure; to make accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant due to constant exposure.
What part of speech is enure?
Enure is a verb.
What is the past tense of enure?
The past tense of enure is enured.

Words near enure in the dictionary

  1. enunciative
  2. enunciatively
  3. enunciator
  4. enunciators
  5. enunciatory
  6. enure
  7. enured
  8. enurement
  9. enures
  10. enureses
  11. enuresis

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