Incur

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To acquire or come into (something usually undesirable); sustain: incurred substantial losses during the stock market crash.
  • v. To become liable or subject to as a result of one's actions; bring upon oneself: incur the anger of a friend.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To bring upon or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to.
  • v. To render somebody liable or subject to.
  • v. To enter or pass into.
  • v. To fall within a period or scope; to occur; to run into danger.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. 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
  • v. To render liable or subject to; to occasion.
  • verb-intransitive. To pass; to enter.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To run upon; impinge upon; run against or strike.
  • To encounter, as some undesirable or injurious consequence; become liable or subject to through one's own action; bring upon one's self: as, to incur liabilities.
  • To enter; pass; occur; come to pass.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make oneself subject to; bring upon oneself; become liable to
  • v. receive a specified treatment (abstract)
  • Antonym
    avoid    avert   
    Verb Form
    incurred    incurring    incurs   
    Variant
    incurring    incurred   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    encounter    contract    occasion    pass    enter    get    run    gain    acquire   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Burr    Fleur    Fur    Kerr    Monsieur    Shir    Sir    Spur    Thur    Ur