Crossword-Solution: INCUR 5 letters, 122 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Incur v. t. 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.
Incur v. t. To render liable or subject to; to occasion.
Incur v. i. To pass; to enter.

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INCUR anagram RUNIC

We have 122 clues for the answer “INCUR”

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Acquire a debt 1 answer
Acquire, as a debt 1 answer
Acquire, as debt 1 answer
Acquire, as expenses 1 answer
Acquire, as liabilities 1 answer
Anagram of "runic" 1 answer
Arouse, as another's wrath 1 answer
Arouse, as someone's wrath 1 answer
Arouse, as wrath 1 answer
BRING down on oneself 1 answer
Become burdened with 1 answer
Become liable 1 answer
Become liable for 1 answer
Become liable or subject to 1 answer
Become liable to 1 answer
Become responsible for 1 answer
Become subject to 1 answer
Become subject to (a penalty) 1 answer
Bring about, as wrath 1 answer
Bring blame on oneself 1 answer
Bring down upon 1 answer
Bring on one's self. 1 answer
Bring on oneself 1 answer
Bring upon 1 answer
Bring upon yourself 1 answer
Many debts 1 answer
Provoke, as wrath 1 answer
Rack up, as charges 1 answer
Rack up, as debt 1 answer
Rack up, as debts 1 answer
Rack up, as expenses 1 answer
Rack up, like an expense 1 answer
Rack up, like charges 1 answer
Rack up, like late fees 1 answer
Run up (a fine, e.g.) 1 answer
Run up, as bills 1 answer
Run up, as charges 1 answer
Run up, as debt 1 answer
Run up, as debts 1 answer
Run up, as expenses 1 answer
Sustain, as expenses 1 answer
Sustain, as injuries 1 answer
Sustain, as losses 1 answer
Take on, as debt 1 answer
make oneself subject to 1 answer
upon oneself Bring about 1 answer
Accumulate, as expenses 2 answers
Fall into ____ 3 answers
incur a duty 3 answers
be subject to 3 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INCUR (5)

Few are willing to incur the odium attaching to the reputation of being a cruel master; and above all things, they would not be known as not giving a slave enough to eat.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau 1993
Monseigneur, as a class, had dissociated himself from the phenomenon of his not being appreciated: of his being so little wanted in France, as to incur considerable danger of receiving his dismissal from it, and this life together.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994
Nevertheless, I see, with you, many reasons for regarding my autobiography as exceptional in its character, and as being, in some sense, naturally beyond the reach of those reproaches which honorable and sensitive minds dislike to incur.
My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1995
They could easier deny themselves than incur any reproach from a woman; for a woman was like their mother, and they were full of the sense of their mother.
Sons and Lovers David Herbert Lawrence 1995

Quotes with INCUR (3)

[The wives of powerful noblemen] must be highly knowledgeable about government, and wise — in fact, far wiser than most other such women in power. The knowledge of a baroness must be so comprehensive that she can understand everything. Of her a philosopher might have said: "No one is wise who does not know some part of everything." Moreover, she must have the courage of a man. This means that she should not be brought up overmuch among women nor should she be indulged in exte…
Christine de Pizan The Treasure of the City of Ladies
She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago, she had a young child's perfectly shallow receptiveness; she fitted into the world of time, it fitted into her, as thoughtlessly as sky fits its edges, or a river its banks. But as she has grown, her smile has widened with a touch of fear and her glance has taken on depth. Now she is aware of some of the losses you incur by being here--the ext…
Annie Dillard Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
It was certainly true that I had “no sense of humour” in that I found nothing funny. I didn’t know, and perhaps would never know, the feeling of compulsion to exhale and convulse in the very specific way that humans evolved to do. Nor did I know the specific emotion of relief that is bound to it. But it would be wrong, I think, to say that I was incapable of using humour as a tool. As I understood it, humour was a social reflex. The ancestors of humans had been ape-animals li…
Max Harms Crystal Society
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 144 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).