Incur vs Cumulate - What's the difference?
incur | cumulate |
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
In lang=en terms the difference between incur and cumulate
is that incur is to render liable or subject to; to occasion while cumulate is to be accumulated.As verbs the difference between incur and cumulate
is that incur is to bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to while cumulate is to accumulate; to amass.As an adjective cumulate is
accumulated, agglomerated, amassed.As a noun cumulate is
(geology) an igneous rock formed by the accumulation of crystals from a magma either by settling or floating.incur
English
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.