incur

incur is a 5-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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/ penalty, responsibility, etc. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 10 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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/ penalty, responsibility, etc.
2. transitive verb. To render liable or subject to; to occasion.
3. intransitive verb. To pass; to enter.
4. verb. receive a specified treatment (abstract)

   "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"

   "His movie received a good review"

   Synonyms: find, get, obtain, receive

5. verb. make oneself subject to; bring upon oneself; become liable to

   "People who smoke incur a great danger to their health"

Synonyms

find, get, obtain, receive

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in incur:

curin, runic

Common word forms

incurs, incurred, incurrer, incurable, incurment, incurring

Words from these letters

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