Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To inclose in or as in a case; cover or surround with something.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To inclose in a case; to inclose; to cover or surround with something solid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Alternative spelling of
encase .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb enclose in, or as if in, a case
- adverb if there happens to be need
Etymologies
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Examples
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I have good Health insurance just incase is low cost because we perfect Health.
Obama's former doctor critical of White House health care plan 2009
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McCain incase your forget THE USA IS fighting two wars one that was an unnessary war.
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Im gonna spectorlate that they want Bolton in incase they lose the Senate.
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Ok. ive been told that to get deployed u have to have a brother to carry your name incase you die?
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Ok. ive been told that to get deployed u have to have a brother to carry your name incase you die?
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Ok. ive been told that to get deployed u have to have a brother to carry your name incase you die?
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Ok. ive been told that to get deployed u have to have a brother to carry your name incase you die?
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Ok. ive been told that to get deployed u have to have a brother to carry your name incase you die?
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Ok. ive been told that to get deployed u have to have a brother to carry your name incase you die?
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Ok. ive been told that to get deployed u have to have a brother to carry your name incase you die?
EditorMark commented on the word incase
Is this accurate? The two-word "in case" listed as "incase" in GNU Webster's 1913?
July 13, 2010
qroqqa commented on the word incase
Some Web copies of Webster 1913 are based on a scanning with numerous errors. Other copies are from a better (or perhaps corrected) scanning; and one of those shows that the definition here originally belonged (i.e. in the 1913 print) to two-word 'in case'.
July 13, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word incase
I've started a list of these - I'd love to check them against the print edition. Does anyone have access to one?
July 13, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word incase
But... it is an obsolete spelling of encase (I have a list for those, too).
October 21, 2011