Inured vs Inbred - What's the difference?
inured | inbred |
(inure)
To cause (someone) to become accustomed (to something); to habituate.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
* 1977 , , Penguin Classics, p. 465:
* 1996 , , The Demon-Haunted World
(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".
bred within; innate; as, inbred worth.
(often pejorative) having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding
(genetics) describing a strain produced through successive generations of inbreeding resulting in a population of genetically identical individuals which are homozygous at all genetic loci.
(inbreed)
(vulgar) An inbred individual
As verbs the difference between inured and inbred
is that inured is (inure) while inbred is (inbreed).As an adjective inbred is
bred within; innate; as, inbred worth.As a noun inbred is
(vulgar) an inbred individual.inured
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*inure
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- 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.
- 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.
- As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils.
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* ----inbred
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(en noun)- Since you all marry your cousins I bet you're a bunch of inbreds .