INCURRED

INCUR

receive, get, find, obtain, incur

(verb) 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”

incur

(verb) make oneself subject to; bring upon oneself; become liable to; “People who smoke incur a great danger to their health”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

incurred

simple past tense and past participle of incur

Source: Wiktionary


INCUR

In*cur", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incurred; p. pr. & vb. n. Incurring.] Etym: [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 I know not what I shall incur to passShak.

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.

Definition: To pass; to enter. [Obs.] Light is discerned by itself because by itself it incurs into the eye. South.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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