INCURRING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incurring mean? 

• INCURRING (noun)
  The noun INCURRING has 1 sense:

1. acquiring or coming into something (usually undesirable)

  Familiarity information: INCURRING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCURRING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Acquiring or coming into something (usually undesirable)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

incurring debts is easier than paying them

Hypernyms ("incurring" is a kind of...):

acquisition (the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something)

Derivation:

incur (make oneself subject to; bring upon oneself; become liable to)

 Context examples 

He had striven to help the unfortunate Harrison at the risk of incurring Wolf Larsen’s anger.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But the feelings which made such composure a disgrace, left her in no danger of incurring it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Again I felt that horrid sense of the reality of things, in which any effort of imagination seemed out of place; and I realised distinctly the perils of the law which we were incurring in our unhallowed work.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was thought that she could hardly live a few hours, but it would be a great consolation to her to see an English doctor, and, if I would only return, etc. The good Steiler assured me in a postscript that he would himself look upon my compliance as a very great favour, since the lady absolutely refused to see a Swiss physician, and he could not but feel that he was incurring a great responsibility.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Suffice it to observe, that it was a masterpiece of eloquence; and that those passages in which he more particularly traced his own successful career to its source, and warned the younger portion of his auditory from the shoals of ever incurring pecuniary liabilities which they were unable to liquidate, brought a tear into the manliest eye present.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The housekeeper and her husband were both of that decent phlegmatic order of people, to whom one may at any time safely communicate a remarkable piece of news without incurring the danger of having one's ears pierced by some shrill ejaculation, and subsequently stunned by a torrent of wordy wonderment.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But in justice to this prince’s great clemency, and the care he has of his subjects’ lives (wherein it were much to be wished that the Monarchs of Europe would imitate him), it must be mentioned for his honour, that strict orders are given to have the infected parts of the floor well washed after every such execution, which, if his domestics neglect, they are in danger of incurring his royal displeasure.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Thus he learned hurt; and on top of it he learned to avoid hurt, first, by not incurring the risk of it; and second, when he had incurred the risk, by dodging and by retreating.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

After a proper resistance on the part of Mrs. Ferrars, just so violent and so steady as to preserve her from that reproach which she always seemed fearful of incurring, the reproach of being too amiable, Edward was admitted to her presence, and pronounced to be again her son.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)