| incubate | (verb) sit on (eggs) | Synonyms: brood, cover, hatch |
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| (verb) grow under conditions that promote development | - |
| incubation | (noun) maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development | - |
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| (noun) sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body | Synonyms: brooding |
| (noun) (pathology) the phase in the development of an infection between the time a pathogen enters the body and the time the first symptoms appear | - |
| incubator | (noun) apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants | Synonyms: brooder |
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| incubus | (noun) a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women | - |
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| (noun) someone who depresses or worries others | - |
| (noun) a situation resembling a terrifying dream | Synonyms: nightmare |
| inculcate | (verb) teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions | Synonyms: infuse, instill |
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| inculcation | (noun) teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition | Synonyms: ingraining, instilling |
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| inculpability | (noun) a state of innocence | Synonyms: blamelessness, guiltlessness, inculpableness |
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| inculpable | (adjective) free of guilt; not subject to blame | Synonyms: blameless, irreproachable, unimpeachable |
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| inculpableness | (noun) a state of innocence | Synonyms: blamelessness, guiltlessness, inculpability |
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| inculpate | (verb) suggest that someone is guilty | Synonyms: imply, incriminate |
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| inculpation | (noun) an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed | Synonyms: blame, incrimination |
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| inculpative | (adjective) causing blame to be imputed to | Synonyms: inculpatory |
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| inculpatory | (adjective) causing blame to be imputed to | Synonyms: inculpative |
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| incumbency | (noun) the office of an incumbent | - |
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| (noun) a duty that is incumbent upon you | - |
| (noun) the term during which some position is held | Synonyms: tenure, term of office |
| incumbent | (adjective) currently holding an office | - |
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| (adjective) necessary (for someone) as a duty or responsibility; morally binding | - |
| (adjective) lying or leaning on something else | - |
| (noun) the official who holds an office | Synonyms: officeholder |
| incumbrance | (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, interference, preventative, preventive |
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| (noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: burden, encumbrance, load, onus |
| (noun) a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage) | Synonyms: encumbrance |
| incur | (verb) receive a specified treatment (abstract) | Synonyms: find, get, obtain, receive |
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| (verb) make oneself subject to; bring upon oneself; become liable to | - |
| incurability | (noun) incapability of being cured or healed | Synonyms: incurableness |
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| (noun) incapability of being altered in disposition or habits | - |
| incurable | (adjective) incapable of being cured | - |
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| (adjective) unalterable in disposition or habits | - |
| (noun) a person whose disease is incurable | - |
| incurableness | (noun) incapability of being cured or healed | Synonyms: incurability |
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| incurably | (adverb) in a manner impossible to cure | - |
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| (adverb) to an incurable degree | - |
| incurious | (adjective) showing absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity | - |
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| incurrence | (noun) the act of incurring (making yourself subject to something undesirable) | - |
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| incurring | (noun) acquiring or coming into something (usually undesirable) | - |
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| incursion | (noun) an attack that penetrates into enemy territory | Synonyms: penetration |
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| (noun) the act of entering some territory or domain (often in large numbers) | - |
| (noun) the mistake of incurring liability or blame | - |
| incursive | (adjective) involving invasion or aggressive attack | Synonyms: invading, invasive |
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| incurvate | (adjective) bent into or having an inward curve | Synonyms: incurved |
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| (verb) cause to curve inward | - |
| (verb) bend inwards | - |
| incurvation | (noun) the action of creating a curved shape | - |
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| (noun) a shape that curves or bends inward | Synonyms: concave shape, concavity, incurvature |
| incurvature | (noun) a shape that curves or bends inward | Synonyms: concave shape, concavity, incurvation |
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| incurved | (adjective) bent into or having an inward curve | Synonyms: incurvate |
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| incus | (noun) a small bone in the middle ear between the malleus and the stapes | Synonyms: anvil |
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