Read full poem →Their looser lookes that stir up lustes impure.
With such strange termes* her eyes she doth inure,
That with one looke she doth my life dismay,
Dictionary Entry
To cause someone to become accustomed to something (usually) unpleasant.
Origin
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Common Phrases
dolor inurehimself inurethemselves inuredirectly inureourselves inureinure eum
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Poetry examples for “inure”
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Read full poem →How they inure to themselves as much as to any — what a paradox
appears their age.
Read full poem →All that is henceforth to be thought or done by you, whoever you are, or by any one;
These inure, have inured, shall inure, to the identities from which they sprang, or shall
spring.
Read full poem →inures not to me,
Beauty, knowledge, inure not to me-yet there are two or three things
inure to me,
Read full poem →Here climb the vast, pure spaces, unconfined, uncheck’d by wall or roof,
Here laugh with storm or sun—here joy—here patiently inure,
Here heed himself, unfold himself (not others’ formulas heed)—here fill
Read full poem →(Lo, how the wars of the past have duly inured to you, and the wars
of the present also inure;)
Then turn, and be not alarm'd O Libertad--turn your undying face,