Inured vs Hurted - What's the difference?

inured | hurted |

As verbs the difference between inured and hurted

is that inured is (inure) while hurted is (archaic|or|nonstandard) (hurt).

inured

English

Verb

(head)

(inure)

Anagrams

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".

Anagrams

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hurted

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Verb

(head)

(archaic, or, nonstandard) (hurt)

* a1536 , , An Answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue'' read in William Tyndale, Henry Walter, ''An Answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue, &c, &c , The Parker Society (1850), p. 74,

And so long as it was understood what was meant by them, and they did but serve the people, and preach one thing or another unto them, they hurted not greatly.

* 1715 , An Inquiry Into the Origin of Parliamentary Impeachments , J Peele, p. 38,

And that by his Legacy, no Man shou'd be hurted or offended: And upon that Condition, and no other, he was admitted by your Grace to be Legate.

* 1766 , Jonathan Swift - the Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift

The Dean then ran up the great stairs, down one pair of back-stairs, up another, in so violent a manner, that Mrs Pilkington could not help expressing her uneasiness to Mrs Brent, lest he should fall, and be hurted .

* 1817 , Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria

Yet the sting of the adder remains venomous, though there are many who have taken up the evil thing, and it hurted them not.

* 1888 , , Wee Willie Winkie'' read in Rudyard Kipling, ''The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories , Courier Dover Publications (1994), p. 76

‘Are you badly, badly hurted ?' shouted Wee Willie Winkie, as soon as he was within range. ‘You didn't ought to be here.'

* 1907 , J.M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western World

And you never went near to see was he hurted or what ailed him at all?

* 1911 , Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes

Timmy coughed and groaned, because his ribs hurted him.

* 2006 , John Waller, Irish Flames: Peter Waller's True Story of the Arrival of the Black and Tans , Yiannis Books, ISBN: 0954788729, p.66,

*:"Well, ye see doctor, it's like this. I mean to say, the lad is far from home and he hurted his leg up yonder in Firgrove Wood."

* 2006 , Jonathan Rogers, The Way of the Wilderking , Broadman & Holman Publishers, ISBN: 0805431330, p. 78,

That hurted Mr. Bear, you know. But mostly, it made him mad.

Usage notes

From the 15th century to the mid-19th century, hurted'' was used as a standard alternative to ''hurt'' and various other spellings as the simple past tense and past participle of ''to hurt . From the late 19th century, well-known writers have rarely used it except in jocular fashion or in works for children. It is now nonstandard.