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Reserved vs Inured - What's the difference?

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Reserved is a related term of inured.


As verbs the difference between reserved and inured

is that reserved is (reserve) while inured is (inure).

As an adjective reserved

is (comparable) slow to reveal emotion or opinions.

reserved

English

Verb

(head)
  • (reserve)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (comparable) Slow to reveal emotion or opinions.
    • He was a quiet, reserved person.
  • (not comparable) Set aside for the use of a particular person or party.
    • I'm sorry, sir, but these are reserved seats.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * reservedly * reservedness

    Derived terms

    * reserved track

    See also

    * shy

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    inured

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (inure)

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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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