Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Greek term or phrase:
παθαίνω ανοσία
English translation:
become / grow immune | (fig.) ~ σε κάτι, become inured / impervious (to sth)
Greek term
Επαθαν ανοσία
In Elassona in 1978 I remember hearing about how badly the Greeks suffered when, at the end of World War II, civil war broke out.
The friend in question, describing to me the almost inconceivably awful sanitary conditions, ended by saying, “Επαθαν ανοσία.”
Now, my dictionary simply gives “immunity” for “ανοσία”, and I realize that ninety-nine times out of a hundred that's a fine rendering.
However, I'm not too happy about saying "immunity" here because it seems to me that what my friend was describing was a kind of pathological inability to get ill. After all, why say “έπαθαν”, almost as if it were something suffered.
Also, I've never heard of across-the-board immunity, only limited immunity.
I write in full awareness that this may be total rubbish from a medical point of view, but such was the impression I gained.
All the best, and many thanks,
Simon
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Proposed translations
United Kingdom
The word is my oyster
Native in: Greek 
Works in: English to Greek, Greek to English, Greek
They have grown immune
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enGR256GR256&...
Greece
It's all Greek to me!
Native in: Greek
Works in: English to Greek, Greek to English, French to Greek, and 10 more.
They became impervious (to)
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
# unaffected or unable to be affected by; preventative of any penetration; impenetrable, impermeable; immune to damage or effect
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/impervious
# Not allowing infiltration.
www.hancockcoingov.org/surveyor/drainage_glossary_of_terms....
# A material that does not allow another substance to pass through or penetrate it.
www.utexas.edu/safety/ehs/msds/glossary/
# Soil that has become tightly packed because of foot traffic, construction etc.
www.servicemagic.com/article.show.Landscaping-Glossary.1345...
# In hydrologic terms, the ability to repel water, or not let water infiltrate
www.weather.gov/glossary/glossary.php
# Incapable of being penetrated.
www.pbigordon.com/homefarm/glossary.php
# A term denoting the resistance to penetration by water or plant roots.
www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business/Water/2ColumnSubPage/STEL02_1...
# not capable of being passed through, damaged, or disturbed. (Water is not able to flow through impervious surfaces, such as asphalt roads and concrete sidewalks.)
www.doe.virginia.gov/VDOE/LFB/glossary/i_j_k.html
# resisting passage, used in the context of this class, it means soil or man made barriers that do not permit water to penetrate. Impervious surfaces such as parking lots and roofs speed run off causing erosion. ...
www.nps.gov/keaq/forteachers/upload/Definitionno.doc
# A solid that does not allow a liquid to pass through its surface; impenetrable.[xii] In this context it refers to the ability of rainwater to pass through unnatural surfaces around and near a building or the building’s parking lot.
www.csbsju.edu/environmentalstudies/curriculum/greenbuildin...
# A surface that does not allow water to penetrate. For example, a paved driveway is impervious, while a gravel driveway is not.
www.borough.kenai.ak.us/KenaiRiverCenter/generalinfo/Glossa...
# Impervious soil is soil in which the spacing of the soil particles is so close as to allow only very slow passage of water. For example, movement of water through a typical clay (an "impervious" soil) may be only 1/1,000,000 as fast as through a typical sand.
www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/tccc/tutorial/shafts/fhglos...
# not affected by something
www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/lordflies/terms.html
# A surface through which little or no water will move due to lack of pore space. Impervious areas include paved parking lots and roof tops.
www.crwc.org/programs/watershedmgmt/glossary.html
# Any covering which prevents stormwater from entering the ground; a building, parking lot, driveway, patio, pool.
www.ci.boca-raton.fl.us/Muni/StormWater/glossary.shtm
# resistant to penetration by liquid.
landwise.ca/Nutrient/Glossary.htm
# Chemical protective clothing is "impervious" to a chemical substance if the substance causes no chemical or mechanical degradation ...
www.setonresourcecenter.com/CFR/40CFR/P721_004.HTM
# Surface that resists the infiltration of water. Usually a measure of roof and road surfaces in simulation modelling.
www.nodig.co.za/glossary/glossaryi.htm
they became inured to
He became inured to his wife's whining
Austria
more than thirty years of experience
Native in: German 
Works in: Greek to German, English to German, Greek to English, and 5 more.
if the accent is on the wrong letter: they suffered terribly (abominably)
provided the accent shifts to the o, i.e. έπαθαν ανόσια,
ανόσιος means abominable in the sense < they suffered ανοσιουργήματα>
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