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Spent vs Incurred - What's the difference?

spent | incurred |

As verbs the difference between spent and incurred

is that spent is (spend) while incurred is (incur).

As an adjective spent

is consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.

spent

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.
  • a spent cartridge

    Verb

    (head)
  • (spend)
  • Statistics

    * ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Adjective

  • tense
  • en spent situasjon - a tense situation

    References

    * ----

    incurred

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (incur)

  • incur

    English

    Alternative forms

    * encur

    Verb

    (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.

    Synonyms

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

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