What's the difference between insure and inure?

Insure


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.
  • (v. t.) Specifically, to secure against a loss by a contingent event, on certain stipulated conditions, or at a given rate or premium; to give or to take an insurance on or for; as, a merchant insures his ship or its cargo, or both, against the dangers of the sea; goods and buildings are insured against fire or water; persons are insured against sickness, accident, or death; and sometimes hazardous debts are insured.
  • (v. i.) To underwrite; to make insurance; as, a company insures at three per cent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Further development of drug formulary concept was discussed, primarily for the drugs paid by the Health Insurance, as well as the unsatisfactory ADR reporting in Yugoslavia.
  • (2) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
  • (3) The direct monocyte source is not sufficient to insure the stability of this population.
  • (4) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
  • (5) Most survivors reported a range of problems that they attributed to having had cancer: 35%, proven or perceived infertility; 24%, sexual problems; 31%, health and life insurance problems; 26%, a negative socioeconomic effect; and 51%, conditioned nausea, associated with visual or olfactory reminders of chemotherapy.
  • (6) They derive from publications of the National Insurance Institute for Occupational Accidents (INAIL) and refer to the Italian and Umbrian situation.
  • (7) Initial analysis suggests that about one-fifth of gross costs would be directly returned to the public purse via income tax and national insurance payments.
  • (8) The industry will pay a levy of £180m a year, or the equivalent of £10.50 a year on all household insurance policies.
  • (9) The author describes the utilization review process, utilization patterns, and service cost of the Mental Health Service of the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York (HIP).
  • (10) The four most common types of insurance that protect your income are income protection insurance, critical illness cover, life insurance, and payment protection insurance.
  • (11) Whereas 87% of U.S. physicians supported private fee-for-service health care, 85% of Canadian physicians supported government-funded national health insurance.
  • (12) When I eventually get hold of a human at Uber, I am told the only insurance cover is up to $1m to cover “bodily injury or property damage to third parties where the claim arises out of UberEats and UberRush operations”.
  • (13) The use of accounting software expands the use of in-office computers to areas beyond professional billing and insurance form generation.
  • (14) In a 2013 Politifact interview , the author of the Urban Institute study, Stan Dorn, said: “It makes sense that as time goes by … health insurance coverage has greater impact on health outcomes.” The specific numbers might be hard to agree upon, and even harder to forecast if the Republican bill is passed.
  • (15) Requesting physicians explicitly identified "no money" or "no insurance" as the primary reason for transfer in 89 per cent of 164 cases in which these data were recorded.
  • (16) Relief on contributions, national insurance, tax-exempt lump sums and others amounts to a phenomenal £48.4bn a year.
  • (17) As part of the plan, the treasury and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation will guarantee against the "possibility of unusually large losses" on up to $306bn of risky loans and securities backed by commercial and residential mortgages.
  • (18) In March-May 1988, we collected data on enrollment of 1,445 Army families with grade school children in the Active Duty Dependents Dental Insurance Plan at two Army posts.
  • (19) The studies are conducted on members of a prepaid medical insurance plan, and reside in the Oakland area of California, USA.
  • (20) Insurance claims for medical services submitted on behalf of a group of workers in the construction industry were collected over a 20-month period.

Inure


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To apply in use; to train; to discipline; to use or accustom till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience; to harden; to habituate; to practice habitually.
  • (v. i.) To pass into use; to take or have effect; to be applied; to serve to the use or benefit of; as, a gift of lands inures to the heirs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Growing up in and around war zones and in high-crime environments will inure a person to risk and violence.
  • (2) Perhaps we are beginning to become inured – thickening our skin and hardening our hearts, proofing ourselves against the pain to come.
  • (3) It and subsequent genocides could only have taken place because people had become “inured”.
  • (4) Many of us have become inured to shock at the revolving door between politicians, the civil service, high-ranking military personnel and the arms trade.
  • (5) Hours after the attack ended, US troops with sniffer dogs checked the building for undetonated explosives, as security officials inured to violence snapped pictures of the bodies and discussed the support the fighters must have received.
  • (6) The simultaneous changes of thermoregulation can be looked upon as part of the reaction of the whole body (also called inurement).
  • (7) Inurement by exposure lies at the heart of most of our leisure activities.
  • (8) All of us can help by advocating on behalf of the doctors and their patients, refusing to accept their suffering is normal, even if the world can sometimes seems inured to Syria’s pain.
  • (9) A federation whose other alumni include former president Jack Warner, the long time rogue whose scheme to cream off funds meant for Haitian earthquake victims shocked even those who ha become inured to his antics, and Chuck Blazer, who siphoned millions in consultancy fees to fund a lavish Trump Towers lifestyle for himself, his cats and his parrots.
  • (10) But when you’ve been the subject of a $250bn lawsuit at the tender age of 23, then no doubt you become inured to opposition.
  • (11) Air traffic controllers stopped work from 1000 to 1300 GMT and journalists stopped work for five hours.But the bleak weather and despondency among Greeks inured to protests against the erosion of jobs and benefits meant the marches largely fizzled, with two unions cancelling plans for a coordinated march to parliament because of the rain.
  • (12) Her public, now inured to Gaga dressed in beef, was bewildered to hear that Artpop has been heavily influenced by the performance artist Marina Abramovic and sculptor Jeff Koons.
  • (13) Churchill's "lion-hearted nation" could not have endured the last war, or the Blitz, without inurement training.
  • (14) He became inured to seeing dead people all around him: "We did not care if we died today or only tomorrow."
  • (15) If they are not inured to criticism, I don't think anybody is."
  • (16) Becoming inured to welfare, they cease to hunt for opportunities and investment projects, and lose the skills needed to do so.
  • (17) In fact, such incidents do not make news in China , for people have long been inured to them.
  • (18) I also added my name for a more practical reason,” he said, “the government of Bangladesh might be more subject to influence because of this letter than a government in the west, where letters and petitions and appeals and the like are always flying about, and politicians grown inured to them.
  • (19) I have become inured to the messages on the outside of cigarette packages.
  • (20) Studios have learned that popular franchises can effectively be inured against weakly-received instalments provided that new movies continue to roll off the production line.