Meaning and example
cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
He was inured to the cold
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.161 places inure in the rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 56.4% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
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- 56.4%
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teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition
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formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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