About The Word Incur
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Incur
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What's The Definition Of Incur?
[v] receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"
[v] make oneself subject to; bring upon oneself; become liable to; "People who smoke incur a great danger to their health" Synonyms | Synonyms for Incur: find | get | obtain | receive Related Terms | Find terms related to Incur: acquire | arouse | attract | be responsible for | bring down | bring on | bring upon | contract | draw | fall in with | fall into | gain | get | induce | invite | provoke | run | welcome See Also | change | run | subject | take Incur In Webster's Dictionary \In*cur"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Incurred}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Incurring}.] [L. incurrere to run into or toward; pref. in-
in + currere to run. See {Current}.]
1. To meet or fall in with, as something inconvenient,
harmful, or onerous; to put one's self in the way of; to
expose one's self to; to become liable or subject to; to
bring down upon one's self; to encounter; to contract; as,
to incur debt, danger, displeasure? penalty,
responsibility, etc.
I know not what I shall incur to pass it, Having no
warrant. --Shak.
2. To render liable or subject to; to occasion. [Obs.]
Lest you incur me much more damage in my fame than
you have done me pleasure in preserving my life.
--Chapman.
\In*cur"\, v. i. To pass; to enter. [Obs.] Light is discerned by itself because by itself it incurs into the eye. --South. |
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