incur
[verb]
Synonyms: earn, arouse, bring (upon oneself), draw, expose oneself to, gain, meet with, provoke

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Contrasted words: avoid, elude, escape, eschew, evade, shun, discharge, pay, settle
Related Idioms: bring down on (or upon)
Related Words: acquire, get, bring on, induce

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

in‧cur /ɪnˈkɜː $ -ˈkɜːr/ verb (past tense and past participle incurred, present participle incurring) [transitive] formal
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Latin; Origin: incurrere 'to run into', from currere 'to run']

1. if you incur a cost, debt, or a fine, you have to pay money because of something you have done
incur expenses/costs/losses/debts etc
If the council loses the appeal, it will incur all the legal costs.
the heavy losses incurred by airlines since September 11th

2. if you incur something unpleasant, it happens to you because of something you have done
incur sb’s displeasure/wrath/disapproval etc
She wondered what she’d done to incur his displeasure this time.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲