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Adjective enured has 1 sense
- enured, inured, hardened - made tough by habitual exposure; "hardened fishermen"; "a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- Robert Lynd; "our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"- V.S.Pritchett
Antonyms: tender, untoughened (indirect, via tough)
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Enured
Definition:
(verb) To become accustomed or hardened to something, especially difficult or unpleasant circumstances.
Senses:
- To become accustomed or immune to something through prolonged exposure.
- Specifically, to develop resistance or tolerance to hardship, pain, or difficulty.
- To become toughened or inured to a particular climate, environment, or situation.
Sample Sentences:
- After surviving many hardships, he became enured to the challenges of life.
- The soldiers had to undergo intense training to get enured to the rigors of combat.
- Living in a noisy neighborhood, she quickly became enured to the constant street noise.
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