Incurring - English meaning

verb

Evoke or awaken (a feeling, emotion, or response).

Usage examples:

Something about the man aroused the guard's suspicions

verb

To cause someone to have a particular feeling

Usage examples:

It's a subject that has aroused a lot of interest., our suspicions were first aroused when we heard…

verb

To cause someone to feel sexual excitement

verb

Cause to come to a place or participate in a venture by offering something of interest or advantage.

Usage examples:

A campaign to attract more visitors to shetland

verb

To cause something to come toward something else, or to cause a person or animal to become interested in someone or something

Usage examples:

An open flame attracts moths., the tennis championship will attract a lot of tourists to the city.,…

verb

To make people want to visit a place or find out more about something

Usage examples:

Attract visitors/audiences/fans the exhibition attracted over 10,000 visitors., attract interest/at…

noun

A person or thing that gives rise to an action, phenomenon, or condition.

Usage examples:

The cause of the accident is not clear

verb

Make (something, especially something bad) happen.

Usage examples:

This disease can cause blindness

conjunction

Short for because.

verb

Bring or gather together (a number of things).

Usage examples:

He went round the office collecting old coffee cups

adjective

(of a phone call) paid for by the person receiving it.

Usage examples:

A collect call

adverb

(with reference to making a phone call) in a way that is paid for by the person receiving it.

Usage examples:

I called my mother collect

verb

Obtain (money) in return for labour or services.

Usage examples:

I earned £10 an hour working in the shop

noun

Practical contact with and observation of facts or events.

Usage examples:

He had learned his lesson by painful experience

verb

Encounter or undergo (an event or occurrence).

Usage examples:

The company is experiencing difficulties

noun

(the process of getting) knowledge or skill that is obtained from doing, seeing, or feeling things, or something that happens which has an effect on you

Usage examples:

[ u ] do you have any experience working with children?, [ u ] i know from experience that it can g…

idiom

Fml to cause something to exist

Usage examples:

Heavy rains have given rise to flooding over a large area.

verb

Succeed in persuading or leading (someone) to do something.

Usage examples:

The pickets induced many workers to stay away

verb

Cause to act in a specified manner

verb

To persuade someone to do something, or to cause something to happen

Usage examples:

They induced her to take the job by offering her a bonus., if you want me to stay, you’re going to …

verb

Make a polite, formal, or friendly request to (someone) to go somewhere or to do something.

Usage examples:

We were invited to a dinner at the embassy

noun

An invitation.

Usage examples:

No one turns down an invite to one of mickey's parties

verb

To ask someone in a polite or friendly way to come somewhere, such as to a party, or to formally ask someone to do something

Usage examples:

Architects were invited to submit their designs for a new city hall., i think we should invite her …

idiom

To make it easy for people to laugh unkindly at you

Usage examples:

You lay yourself open to ridicule wearing clothes like that.

pronoun

Used by a speaker to refer to himself or herself as the object of a verb or preposition.

Usage examples:

Do you understand me?

noun

(in tonic sol-fa) the third note of a major scale.

abbreviation

Maine.

verb

Stimulate or give rise to (a reaction or emotion, typically a strong or unwelcome one) in someone.

Usage examples:

The decision provoked a storm of protest from civil rights organizations

verb

Provide the needed stimulus for

verb

To try to make a person or an animal angry or annoyed

Usage examples:

He was trying to provoke me into a fight., i’m trying to make people think, provoke their emotions.…

verb

Experience or be subjected to (something bad or unpleasant).

Usage examples:

He suffered intense pain

verb

To experience or show the effects of something bad

Usage examples:

[ t ] about 50,000 bicyclists suffer serious head injuries each year., [ t ] block’s own farm has s…

verb

Strengthen or support physically or mentally.

Usage examples:

This thought had sustained him throughout the years

noun

An effect or facility on a keyboard or electronic instrument whereby a note can be sustained after the key is released.

Usage examples:

She has a decent voice, but it was her sustain on the more difficult notes that really impressed.