inures

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.
   • Matcht with as valiant men, and of as cleane a might, / As skilfull to commaund, and as inur’d to fight.1612, Michael Drayton, chapter 12, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great...

   Synonyms:

   habituate, harden, toughen

2. (intransitive) To take effect, to be operative.
   • Jim buys a beach house that includes the right to travel across the neighbor's property to get to the water. That right of way is said "to inure to the benefit of Jim".

   Synonyms:

   accrue

3. (obsolete, transitive) To commit.
   • He […] gan that ladie strongly to appele / Of many haynous crymes by her enured.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 39