Synonyms for incur
ɪnˈkɜrin·cur

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1. incurverb

   To render somebody liable or subject to.

   Synonyms:
   occasion

2. incurverb

   Synonyms:
   contract, encounter

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1. incur

   Synonyms:
   meet, run

   Antonyms:
   avoid, shun, elude, escape

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1. incurverb

   make oneself subject to; bring upon oneself; become liable to

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

   Synonyms:
   obtain, find, receive, get

2. receive, get, find, obtain, incurverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   pick up, make, mystify, experience, develop, draw, have, find oneself, become, sustain, receive, retrieve, scram, prevail, amaze, stimulate, sire, drive, engender, hold, go, rule, fix, stick, pay back, regain, happen, suffer, feel, beat, set about, get down, get under one's skin, contract, bring forth, grow, dumbfound, stupefy, start, welcome, arrest, meet, witness, bring, bewilder, see, mother, chance, take, buzz off, catch, let, come up, obtain, beget, puzzle, flummox, invite, ascertain, get, generate, capture, find, baffle, produce, get hold, start out, pose, vex, aim, induce, find out, perplex, recover, bump, notice, gravel, begin, fetch, father, determine, commence, discover, encounter, arrive, set out, convey, acquire, come, line up, pay off, detect, bugger off, cause, take in, observe, nonplus

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1. incurverb

   Synonyms:
   contract, become liable to, become subject to

2. incurverb

   Synonyms:
   bring on

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1. List of paraphrases for "incur":

   hire, engage, assume

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How to use incur in a sentence?

1. North Atlantic Refinery Limited:

   Currently, maintenance of the refinery requires North Atlantic to incur significant monthly financial losses. This funding will offset labour and operational costs related to maintaining the refinery in idle mode.

2. Mark Warner:

   We are alarmed that unpaid federal employees will be required to incur this additional financial hardship during a time when they can least afford it.

3. Logan Pearsall Smith:

   That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.

4. Brian Ginsberg:

   The law has changed, yes. But the retrospective historical fact of whether the NRA and its members did or did not incur compensatory damages has not changed, they could have done that in their initial complaint. They didn't do it. They could have done it in their first amended complaint. They didn't … Nor did they attempt … in their proposed second amended complaint.

5. Anicia MIller:

   I was disappointed that I can't start freshman year there and meet people and get involved with clubs, but we're in a pandemic. I don't see a point in taking a health risk for Anicia MIller or my family. And to go on campus and incur those room and board costs just to take classes online seemed like unnecessary charges to pay for.