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incurring

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in·cur  (n-kûr)
tr.v. in·curred, in·cur·ring, in·curs
1. To acquire or come into (something usually undesirable); sustain: incurred substantial losses during the stock market crash.
2. To become liable or subject to as a result of one's actions; bring upon oneself: incur the anger of a friend.

[Middle English incurren, from Old French encorir, from Latin incurrere, to run upon : in-, on; see in-2 + currere, to run; see kers- in Indo-European roots.]
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Noun1.incurring - acquiring or coming into something (usually undesirable); "incurring debts is easier than paying them"
acquisition - the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something; "the acquisition of wealth"; "the acquisition of one company by another"


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Ferguson, by an ingenious arrangement, combined the advantages of two balloons, without incurring their inconveniences.
He might have confessed what he had done and thus allowed Margolotte and her husband to change the brains; but he was afraid of incurring their anger.
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhor- rence.
 
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