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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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verb
To inure; to make accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant due to constant exposure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To take effect, to be operative; used with to.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: law
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History
From en- + ure. Variant form of inure.
