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".

Verb

(impell)

To urge a person; to press on; to incite to action or motion via intrinsic motivation (contrast with propel, to compel or drive extrinsically).

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To drive forward; to propel an object.