S vs Incur - What's the difference?
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The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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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
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.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.s
Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }}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.