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incurre

incurre is the obsolete spelling of incur.

Meaning of incur

Verb

incur (third-person singular simple present incurs, present participle incurring, simple past and past participle incurred)

  1. (transitive) To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to.
    • Near-synonym: contract (debts, etc.)
    Synonyms:
    contract
    1. (transitive) To render (somebody, or oneself) liable or subject to.
      • Near-synonyms: entail, invoke
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To enter or pass into.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To fall within a period or scope; to occur; to run into danger.

Questions about incurre

What is incurre the obsolete spelling of?
Incurre is the obsolete spelling of incur.

Words near incurre in the dictionary

  1. incuriously
  2. incuriousness
  3. incurment
  4. incurments
  5. incurrable
  6. incurre
  7. incurred
  8. incurrence
  9. incurrences
  10. incurrent
  11. incurrest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: incurre (page history and authors); incur (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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