Incur vs Incus - What's the difference?
incur | incus |
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
(skeleton) A small anvil-shaped bone in the middle ear.
* 2010 , Elaine N. Marieb & Katja Hoehn, Human Anatomy & Physiology , 8th edition, page 576
(meteorology) an accessory cloud, in the shape of an anvil which forms by spreading at the top of a cumulonimbus.
As a verb incur
is to bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to.As a noun incus is
a small anvil-shaped bone in the middle ear.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.
Synonyms
* (To bring down or expose oneself to) encounter, contract * (render liable or subject to) occasionAnagrams
*incus
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(wikipedia incus)Noun
(incudes)- The tympanic cavity is spanned by the three smallest bones in the body: the auditory ossicles These bones, named for their shape, are the malleus (mal?e-us; "hammer"); the incus (ing?kus; "anvil"); and the stapes (sta?p?z; "stirrup").