Definitions for incurs

incurs in·cur

Spelling: [in-kur]
IPA: /ɪnˈkɜr/

Incurs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 93 anagrams from letters in incurs (cinrsu).

Definitions for incurs

verb (used with object)

  1. to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious):
  2. to become liable or subject to through one's own action; bring or take upon oneself:

Origin of incurs

1400-50; late Middle English Latin incurrere to run into, come upon, equivalent to in- in-2 + currere to run; see current

Examples for incurs

The immense strategic cost this incurs to the U.S. does not seem to interest them in the least.

She knows also the danger he incurs if detected by her kinsmen.

By abandoning himself to fate, each one incurs a share of the guilt.

When Jeremiah does this zealously, he incurs not only hate but also the gravest dangers.

The hunter who incurs no hardship complains that the sport is tame.

More importantly, Obama has shown that he can take on Netanyahu and inflict more political damage than he incurs.

Certainly he incurs no bodily risk from the incivility of the pit or gallery.

Here then we may note the Christian incurs great blame who neglects the poor.

In the process, it incurs enormous trade and balance of payments deficits.

If he does, he incurs the penalty of being cursed by the Pope.

Word Value for incurs
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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