incur
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WOTD - 24 August 2008
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /ɪnˈkəː/
- (US) IPA: /ɪnˈkɝ/
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- Rhymes: -ɜː(r)
Verb
to incur (third-person singular simple present incurs, present participle incurring, simple past and past participle incurred)
- To bring upon or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to.
- 1891, Henry Graham Dakyns (translator), The works of Xenophon, "The Hellenica", Book 5, Chapter 3,
- [T]he master in his wrath may easily incur worse evil himself than he inflicts—[...]
- 1910, Nicholas Machiavelli, translated by Ninian Hill Thomson, The Prince, Chapter XIX,
- And here it is to be noted that hatred is incurred as well on account of good actions as of bad;
- (chiefly law) To render somebody liable or subject to.
- (obsolete, transitive) To enter or pass into.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To fall within a period or scope; to occur; to run into danger.
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