gewöhnen — meaning in English

English meaning

• accustom verb To make someone used to something through repeated experience.
• inure verb To make someone used to something unpleasant through repeated or prolonged exposure to it.

Senses

gewöhnen is used for these senses in English:

• accustom (transitive, often, passive, or, reflexive, with to) To make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure.
• get used (intransitive) To become accustomed to something; to acclimate; to adjust.
• inure (transitive) To cause someone to become accustomed to something that requires prolonged or repeated tolerance of one or more unpleasantries. [from 16th c.]

inure — full definition

1. verb To make someone used to something unpleasant through repeated or prolonged exposure to it.
2. verb To take effect or become legally operative, as a right or benefit.

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