v. Simple past tense and past participle of mortgage.
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adj. burdened with legal or financial obligations.
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adj. burdened with legal or financial obligations
Word Usage
"To her, novel ideas meant the overthrow of succession of crops, ruin under the name of improvements and methods; in short, mortgaged lands as the inevitable result of experiments."