Condense vs Incur - What's the difference?
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To decrease size or volume by concentration toward the essence.
To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate.
* Milton
* Motley
(chemistry) To transform from a gaseous state into a liquid state via condensation.
(archaic) Condensed; compact; dense.
To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to.
* 1891 , Henry Graham Dakyns (translator), The works of Xenophon , ",
* 1910 , ,
(chiefly, legal) To render somebody liable or subject to.
* 1861 , ,
(obsolete) To enter or pass into.
(obsolete) To fall within a period or scope; to occur; to run into danger.
To render liable or subject to; to occasion.
* Chapman
Condense is a related term of incur.
As verbs the difference between condense and incur
is that condense is while incur is to bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to.As an adjective condense
is condensed.condense
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Alternative forms
* condenceVerb
- An abridged dictionary can be further condensed to pocket size.
- Boiling off water condenses a thin sauce into a soupier mixture.
- In what shape they choose, / Dilated or condensed , bright or obscure.
- The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation.
Synonyms
* (to decrease size or volume) minifyAntonyms
* extend * magnifyAdjective
(en adjective)- The huge condense bodies of planets. — Bentley.
incur
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Alternative forms
* encurVerb
(incurr)- [T]he master in his wrath may easily incur worse evil himself than he inflicts—[...]
- And here it is to be noted that hatred is incurred as well on account of good actions as of bad;
- The least neglect of duty will incur [...] the penalty of thirty-nine well laid on in the morning.
- Lest you incur me much more damage in my fame than you have done me pleasure in preserving my life.