Thesaurus / inure
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There is also the real danger of inuring the reader to violence, by repetition or escalation desensitizing the reader – the actual opposite of what I intended.
DON WINSLOW: THE COMPLICATED ETHICS OF WRITING VIOLENCE IN FICTIONDON WINSLOWAPRIL 27, 2022TIMEYet even he’d found himself becoming inured to scenarios that would have been previously unthinkable.
THE BROKEN FRONT LINEBY AVA KOFMAN, PHOTOGRAPHY BY KENDRICK BRINSON AND DAVID WALTER BANKSAPRIL 7, 2021PROPUBLICAThe nation carried on, inured to the toll the pandemic had taken and the deaths yet to come.
PEOPLE GAVE UP ON FLU PANDEMIC MEASURES A CENTURY AGO WHEN THEY TIRED OF THEM – AND PAID A PRICELGBTQ-EDITORMARCH 28, 2021NO STRAIGHT NEWSThat would amuse him, change the air of his thoughts, and give him time to inure himself to the horrible thing he had discovered.
THE WORKS OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT, VOLUME VIII.GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe continual thought of a good man was how to inure himself to suffering, and prepare himself for death.
THE BEST OF THE WORLD'S CLASSICS, RESTRICTED TO PROSE, VOL. VIII (OF X) - CONTINENTAL EUROPE II.VARIOUSWhat then, said Madame, are not thirty Tears Misfortunes enough to inure her to them?
THE MEMOIRS OF CHARLES-LEWIS, BARON DE POLLNITZ, VOLUME IIIKARL LUDWIG VON PLLNITZBut we must inure ourselves, in the biography of Petrarch, to his over-estimation of favourites in the article of morals.
THE SONNETS, TRIUMPHS, AND OTHER POEMS OF PETRARCHPETRARCHThere is another advantage of Government cooperation that will inure greatly to the benefit of the settler.
CONSERVATION THROUGH ENGINEERINGFRANKLIN K. LANEAnd here, above all, was the field in which to inure his colleagues to toil and hardship and cold and heat and hunger and thirst.
CYROPAEDIAXENOPHONI told him there were painful things enough in the world to inure men to hardness without his making more, &c.
MODERN SKEPTICISM: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE LAND OF DOUBT AND BACK AGAINJOSEPH BARKERWORDS RELATED TO INURE
- accustom
- brainwash
- break in
- care for
- coach
- cultivate
- develop
- discipline
- drill
- drum into
- dry run
- educate
- enlighten
- equip
- exercise
- get a workout
- get in shape
- ground
- grow strong
- guide
- habituate
- harden
- hone
- improve
- instruct
- inure
- make ready
- mold
- prime
- qualify
- rear
- rehearse
- run through
- school
- season
- shape
- sharpen
- show the ropes
- study
- tame
- teach
- tutor
- update
- warm up
- whip into shape
- wise up
- work out
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