Incur

Definitions: Incur

Incur

Verb

1. Make oneself subject to; bring upon oneself; become liable to; "People who smoke incur a great danger to their health".

2. 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".

Date "incur" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Incur

Synonyms: find (v), get (v), obtain (v), receive (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Danger	Verb: be in danger; Adjective:; be exposed to danger, run into danger, incur danger, encounter danger; Noun: run a risk; lay oneself open to; (liability); lean on a broken reed, trust to a broken reed; feel the ground sliding from under one, have to run for it; have the chances against one, have the odds against one, face long odds; be in deep trouble, be between a rock and a hard place.
Debt	Verb: be in debt; Adjective: owe; incur a debt, contract a debt; Noun: run up a bill, run up a score, run up an account; go on tick; borrow; run into debt, get into debt, outrun the constable; run up debts, run up bills (spend).
Disapprobation	Incur blame, excite disapprobation, scandalize, shock, revolt; get a bad name, forfeit one's good opinion, be under a cloud, come under the ferule, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears.
Disrepute	Verb: be inglorious; Adjective: incur disgrace; Noun: have a bad name, earn a bad name; put a halter round one's neck, wear a halter round one's neck; disgrace oneself, expose oneself.
Duty	Verb: be the duty of; be incumbent; Adjective: on, be responsible; Adjective: behoove, become, befit, beseem; belong to, pertain to; fall to one's lot; devolve on; lie upon, lie on one's head, lie at one's door; rest with, rest on the shoulders of. take upon oneself; (promise); be bound to, become bound to, be sponsor for, become sponsor for; incur a responsibility; Noun: be under an obligation, stand under an obligation, lie under an obligation; have to answer for, owe to it oneself.
Intention	Toss up; cast lots, draw lots; leave to chance, trust to chance, leave to the chapter of accidents, trust to the chapter of accidents; tempt fortune; chance it, take one's chance, take a shot at it (attempt); run the risk, run the chance, incur the risk, incur the chance, encounter the risk, encounter the chance; stand the hazard of the die.
Liability	Verb: be -liable; Adjective: incur, lay oneself open to; run the chance, stand a chance; lie under, expose oneself to, open a door to.
Loss	Verb: lose; incur a loss, experience a loss, meet with a loss; miss; mislay, let slip, allow to slip through the fingers; be without; (exempt) a; forfeit.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Incur

English words defined with "incur": Forfete ♦ Incurred ♦ Losingly ♦ Reincur ♦ To run a risk. (references)

Specialty definitions using "incur": Abbey, Additional peanuts, AVOIDED COST ♦ Beans, Bishop ♦ Clarionet, continuing resolution ♦ Food and Nutrition Service, Foreign Words ♦ Gas ♦ incur expenses, Intemperance ♦ Leprosy ♦ Nobleman, Nominate ♦ Peanut price support program, Pickpocket, Prostitute ♦ Revival, Rising ♦ Sleigh, Sweet Taste ♦ Wig. (references)

Etymologies containing "incur": incurrence, incursion. (references)

Author	Quotation
Titus Maccius Plautus	There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Invasive tests can also be used for documenting cure, but these incur the cost and morbidity associated with endoscopy. (references)
		Each year, approximately 70,000 to 90,000 individuals incur a TBI resulting in a long-term, substantial loss of functioning. (references)
		The family may incur high medical bills and the community also pays if the child becomes involved in the juvenile justice system. (references)
Business		This despite the fact that the owners now incur increased personal taxation for the privilege. (references)
		These devices represent a cost that they will incur only through the necessity created by regulations. (references)
		Countries like Korea that restructure and deregulate before government purchased generators have been paid off are prone to incur unrecoverable, or rather "stranded," costs. (references)
Children	Russia	Under the law, health care for children is free; however, the quality varies, and individuals incur significant out of pocket expenses. (references)
Economic History	Hong Kong	Prudent fiscal management and ample reserves have obviated the need for the Hong Kong Government (HKG) to incur debt to finance expenditures. (references)
	Croatia	The government has cancelled the contract with Spie Batignolles to construct part of the Zagreb-Rijeka highway, and is liable to incur significant penalties. (references)
Political Economy	CANADA	In addition, several sectors will incur serious layoffs, which will put upward pressure on the unemployment rates in both countries. (references)
Trade	Djibouti	The goods should be cleared within four to ten days, otherwise they will moved to storage and incur fees. (references)
	Barbados	All goods imported in other than containers of plastics, glass, metal or paperboard incur a 0.75 percent environmental level of CIF value. (references)
Travel	Ecuador	Ascertain whether payment will be made to the overseas hospital or doctor or whether you will be reimbursed later for expenses that you incur. (references)
	Kenya	Please ascertain whether payment will be made to the overseas hospital or doctor or whether you will be reimbursed later for expenses that you incur. (references)
Worker Rights	Japan	In order to repay the debts they incur, trafficked women generally must work long hours (often with no days off) for several months, essentially without pay. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.
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"Incur" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 79.34% of the time. "Incur" is used about 305 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	79.34%	242	19,213
Lexical Verb (base form)	18.69%	57	44,859
Noun (singular)	1.97%	6	143,867
Total	100.00%	305	N/A

Expressions using "incur": incur debts ♦ incur displeasure ♦ incur expenses ♦ incur liabilities ♦ incur losses ♦ incur smb.'s displeasure. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "incur"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shkaktoj (afflict, arouse, beget, breed, bring about, call forth, cause, contrive, create, do, draw, effectuate, engender, evoke, give, induce, inflict, inspire, move, procure, produce, put, raise, sow, start, stir, strike, unchain, work, wreak), pësoj (digest, endure, harvest, meet with, undergo), ngjall (arouse, awake, bestir, breed, bring to life, conjure, create, exalt, excite, feed up, heal, infuse, inspire, interest, kindle, quicken, raise, revive, sow, wake, whet). (various references)

Arabic		‏تحمل (afford, bear, bear up, bearing, decamp, defray, endure, firmness, have smb. over, hold out, last, lump it, mizzle, pocket, put up with, see, stand, stick, stick it out, stomach, suffer, support, sustain, tighten, tolerate, undergo), ‏تعرض (exposure, plot), ‏جلب على نفسه (woo), ‏أخذ على عاتقه (assume, take to one's heels, undertake). (various references)

Bulgarian		спечелвам си, влизам (bob in, come in, enter, get in, get into, go, go in, hive, inure, pass in, pass into, pull in, put in, step in, turn in, walk in), навличам си (contract, invite, run into), понасям (bear, bear off, bide, carry, carry off, digest, drag along, go, play along, pocket, see, stand, stick, suffer, support, sweep away, take, tolerate, undergo), излагам се. (various references)

Chinese		招致 (lead to). (various references)

Czech		vzbudit (arouse, attract, call, excite, kindle, to wake up, wake, wake up), vydávat se v, přivodit k. (various references)

Danish		indgaa eller lade indgaa forpligtelser eller afholde eller lade afholde udgifter (to incur and discharge financial obligations or cause them to be incurred or discharged). (various references)

Dutch		overgaan of doen overgaan tot het doen van uitgaven (to incur and discharge financial obligations or cause them to be incurred or discharged). (various references)

Farsi		موجب(خرج یاضرریاتنبیه وغیره)شدن , متحمل شدن (Defray, Sustain), واردامدن . (various references)

Finnish		joutua velkaan (incur debts), joutua jonkun vihoihin (fall into a person's disfavour, incur a person's displeasure), hävitä (disappear, incur a loss, lose, vanish). (various references)

French		encourir. (various references)

German		sich etw. zuziehen (contract, sustain), laufen (be in motion, be in progress, be on, be playing, be showing, go, go on, hurry, leak, leg it, melt, operate, race, roll, run, run a race, running, runs, show, slip, walk, work), erleiden (abide, agonize, bear, endure, meet with, put up with, suffer, sustain), eingehen (arrive, be adopted, be catchy, be received, come in, contract, contraction, dying, enter, enter into, fold, go under, leave its mark, perishing, pine away, shortening, shrink, shrinkage, sink in, take up, to contract, to shrink, undertake), auf sich ziehen. (various references)

Greek		υφίσταμαι ζημιά, υφίσταμαι (bear, come in for, exist, subsist, sustain, undergo), επισύρω (attract, draw), διατρέχω. (various references)

Hebrew		ליטול על עצמו (undertake). (various references)

Hungarian		magára von (to incur), kiteszi magát valaminek. (various references)

Indonesian		mendatangkan (bring about, import). (various references)

Italian		incorrere in, sostenere (abet, assert, back, bear, bolster, brace, buoy, claim, hold up, insist, keep up, lean, maintain, meet, play, plump, stake, stand, stand up to, state, stay, support, sustain, take, to absorb load stresses, to withstand load stresses, uphold, withstand), esporsi a, attirarsi. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		人の恨み�'買う (to incur a person's enmity). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ひとのうらみ�'かう (to incur a person's enmity). (various references)

Korean		부�"�히십시�". (various references)

Manx		roie stiagh (dash in, run in). (various references)

Norwegian		utsette seg for, pådra seg (catch). (various references)

Pig Latin		incuray

Portuguese		incorrer em (merit, run into), inclinado (apt, aslope, atilt, bent, biased, canted, declivous, downhill, inclinable, inclined, leaning, minded, oblique, pendulous, prone, ready, slanting, sloping, superabundant), expor-se a, chamar sobre si. (various references)

Romanian		a-şi face (serve), a-şi atrage, întâmpina (find, greet, head back, meet, welcome). (various references)

Russian		навлекать на себя (invite), подвергаться (be subject to, go through, undergo, undergone, underwent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zadužiti se (be endebted), navući na sebe, napraviti (crank out, make, run up, work). (various references)

Spanish		incurrir en, sufrir las consecuencias, sufrir daños (harm). (various references)

Swedish		utsätta sig för (expose oneself to, run the risk), åsamka sig, ådraga sig (contract, get). (various references)

Turkish		yaratmak (beget, call into being, compose, conceive, create, father, originate, procreate), yakalanmak (attack, attaint, be smitten with, be taken with, become infected, catch, catch an infection, smite), uğramak (call at, call on, call upon, come by, come over, come round, drop around, drop in, drop in on, experience, fall into, look up, meet, put in an appearance, receive, run against, run in, stop by, stop in, sustain, touch at, undergo, visit), tutulmak (attack, attaint, be at a premium, be enamored of, be enamoured of, be held, be in a request, be smitten with, be stuck, be stuck on, be taken, be taken with, catch on, come in, come up, drop, go into, have a crush on smb., indulge, make a hit, smite, stiffen), maruz kalmak (be exposed, be liable to, be subject of, catch, experience, fall into, sustain), girmek (be enroled, be enrolled, come in, come into, draw into, enter, enter into, enter on, enter upon, gain admission, get in, go, go in, go into, insert, key, key in, keyboard, pull, sail in, sink into, slide into, slip into, step, step in, strike in, type into, walk in, walk into). (various references)

Ukranian		накликати на себе. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	incurrere, incursionem, merari, mererentur, mereri, meretur, merito, meritum, merui. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "incur": incurable, incurables, incurably, incuriosities, incuriosity, incurious, incuriously, incuriousness, incuriousnesses, incurred, incurrence, incurrences, incurrent, incurring, incurs, incursion, incursions, incurvate, incurvated, incurvates, incurvating, incurvation, incurvations, incurvature, incurvatures, incurve, incurved, incurves, incurving. (additional references)
	Words ending with "incur": reincur. (additional references)
	Words containing "incur": reincurred, reincurring, reincurs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Incur" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ainur, Einfuhr, encur, Iachr, icar, iccpr, iclr, icu, incal, incar, incard, incario, incid, incire, inco, incog, incor, incore, incorr, incr, incre, incru, incum, incure, incurr, incus, indu, injur, Inkmun, Inouk, inour, Inqua, Inscr, Inscru, insur, Inu, inur, Iocu, minceur, nicu, pincurl. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "incur" (pronounced i'nker")
3	-n k er"	concur.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: runic.
	Words within the letters "c-i-n-r-u"
	-1 letter: curn, ruin, unci, uric.
	-2 letters: cur, rin, run, urn.
	-3 letters: in, nu, un.
	Words containing the letters "c-i-n-r-u"
	+1 letter: anuric, brucin, crinum, curing, incurs, uranic, urchin.
	+2 letters: brucine, brucins, coenuri, cranium, crinums, crucian, cumarin, curbing, curding, curling, curring, cursing, curtain, curving, incrust, incurve, inducer, iracund, numeric, puranic, reincur, ricinus, ruching, rucking, ruction, trucing, unicorn, urchins.
	+3 letters: accruing, anuretic, bouncier, brucines, bunchier, ceinture, chunkier, churning, churring, cincture, cislunar, clouring, clunkier, coinsure, cothurni, coumarin, coursing, courting, cousinry, craniums, crucians, crudding, cruising, crumbing, crumping, crushing, crusting, culinary, culverin, cumarins, cuniform, curarine, curating, curbings, curdling, curlings, currying, curtains, decurion, enuretic, eructing, euchring, francium, incisure, incrusts, incumber, incurred, incurved, incurves, inducers, inductor, insecure, instruct, intercut, jouncier, lurching, manicure, neuritic, neuronic, neurotic, numerics, punchier, quercine, recusing, reducing, reincurs, reinduce, reinduct, rescuing, rubicund, ruchings, ruckling, ructions, ruthenic, sciurine, scouring, scrutiny, securing, sinecure, sourcing, sprucing, taciturn, tincture, trucking, ulcering, uncaring, unciform, unerotic, unheroic, unicolor, unicorns, unpriced, unsicker, uranitic, uranylic, urinemic, urticant.
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