inure

Etymology

From Middle English inuren, equivalent to in- + ure (“practise, exercise”).

verb

1. (transitive) To cause someone to become accustomed to something that requires prolonged or repeated tolerance of one or more unpleasantries.
   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. 1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Nevill Coghill, The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 465
   As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils. 1996, Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
   Young people all across the continent were inured to a level of public brutality, in words and actions, that would have shocked their nineteenth-century forebears. 2005, Tony Judt, “Culture Wars”, in Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945, London: Vintage Books, published 2010
   This conflict produces a psychic numbing that inures us to the realities of being tracked, parsed, mined, and modified. 2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 1, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
2. (intransitive, chiefly law) 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".
3. (transitive, obsolete) To commit.