Inured vs Prone - What's the difference?

As a verb inured

is past tense of inure.

As an adjective prone is

lying face downward; prostrate.^{Wp

inured English

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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".

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prone English

Adjective
(en adjective)

Lying face downward; prostrate.^(w)
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*:But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.
Having a downward inclination or slope.
Shooting from a lying down position.
Predisposed, liable, inclined.

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* prone to

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