Incurred vs Acquired - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between incurred and acquired

is that incurred is past tense of incur while acquired is past tense of acquire.

developed postfetally; not congenital.

(head)

(incur)

* encur

(incurr)

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 , ",

[T]he master in his wrath may easily incur worse evil himself than he inflicts—[...]

* 1910 , ,

And here it is to be noted that hatred is incurred as well on account of good actions as of bad;

(chiefly, legal) To render somebody liable or subject to.

* 1861 , ,

The least neglect of duty will incur [...] the penalty of thirty-nine well laid on in the morning.

(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

Lest you incur me much more damage in my fame than you have done me pleasure in preserving my life.

* (To bring down or expose oneself to) encounter, contract * (render liable or subject to) occasion

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(acquire)

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(medicine) Developed postfetally; not congenital.