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inured

Verb
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Inured means made accustomed to something difficult or unpleasant.

Detailed Definition
The word usually suggests becoming hardened through repeated exposure, especially to hardship, pain, or discomfort. In poetry it can also imply a kind of practiced endurance or numbness.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Inured to shade / Your eyes now faintly trace” means accustomed through repeated exposure, so the eyes can see in darkness; In Wordsworth’s nature poetry, perception often deepens when the observer waits and attends, a related process of becoming inured to a setting; “Inured to sirens, the child slept through midnight” shows how repetition can produce troubling emotional or sensory hardening; A contemporary poem may contrast resilience with numbness: “inured to loss, not healed by it”
Additional Notes
The phrase “inured to shade” uses a less common verb that many readers may not know without context.; Found in the poem, The Letter by Charlotte Brontë
Also Known As
accustomed habituated conditioned familiar
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