Spent vs Incurred - What's the difference?
spent | incurred |
Consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.
(spend)
tense
(incur)
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 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
(-)- a spent cartridge
Verb
(head)Statistics
* ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==Adjective
- en spent situasjon - a tense situation
References
* ----incurred
English
Verb
(head)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.