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1. Acquiring or coming into something (usually undesirable)
   "incurring debts is easier than paying them"

1. Make oneself subject to; bring upon oneself; become liable to
   "People who smoke incur a great danger to their health"
    
2. Be subject to a specified treatment or analysis
   "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or incur an interpretation"
   - receive, get, find, obtain

See also: incurrence, incursion

Type of: acquisition, change, subject