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Insure vs Inure - What's the difference?

insure | inure |

In transitive terms the difference between insure and inure

is that insure is to provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event while inure is to cause (someone) to become accustomed (to something); to habituate.

insure

English

Verb

  • To provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event.
    • I'm not insured against burglary.
  • To deal in such contracts; subscribe to a policy of insurance
  • (chiefly, US) : To make sure or certain of; guarantee.
  • * 1787 , ,
    • ''We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
  • : To give confidence in the trustworthiness of.
    • He insured me that there would be no further delays.

    Usage notes

    * (provide for compensation) Note that both the person taking out insurance and the company with whom the policy is taken are said to insure the risk.

    Derived terms

    * insurance * insurer * reinsure

    Related terms

    * insurant * assure * ensure

    See also

    * inshore

    Anagrams

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    inure

    English

    Verb

  • To cause (someone) to become accustomed (to something); to habituate.
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
    • To none of these evidences of a fearful tragedy of a long dead day did little Tarzan give but passing heed. His wild jungle life had inured him to the sight of dead and dying animals, and had he known that he was looking upon the remains of his own father and mother he would have been no more greatly moved.
  • * 1977 , , Penguin Classics, p. 465:
    • Your insults to myself can be endured, / I am a philosopher and am inured . / But there are insults that I will not swallow / That you have levelled at our gods.
  • * 1996 , , The Demon-Haunted World
    • As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils.
  • (intransitive, chiefly, legal) 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, cryptically, "to inure to the benefit of Jim".

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