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Foreclose

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To deprive (a mortgagor) of the right to redeem mortgaged property, as when payments have not been made.

v. To bar an equity or a right to redeem (a mortgage).

v. To exclude or rule out; bar.

v. To settle or resolve beforehand.

verb-intransitive. To bar an equity or a right to redeem a mortgage.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. to repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments

v. to prevent from doing something

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To shut out; exclude; prevent.

In law: To shut out by a judicial decree from further opportunity to assert a right or claim: said of the process by which all persons previously having right to redeem property from a forfeiture for non-payment of a debt are finally cut off from that right: as, to foreclose a mortgager of his equity of redemption.

Hence— To enforce, as a mortgage, by shutting out in due process of law a mortgager and those claiming under him from the right to redeem the property mortgaged.

To enforce a mortgage.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. keep from happening or arising; make impossible

v. subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage

Word Usage

""They granted you a mortgage, and that's recorded in the land records, and the company that has the mortgage and can foreclose is MERS.""

Verb Form

foreclosed forecloses foreclosing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

repossess reclaim

Hyponym

stop queer ward off stymy save

Form

foreclosed foreclosing foreclosure foreclosable

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

preclude stop prevent bar exclude

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Bose Brose Goes Joes Jos