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[ verb ] keep from happening of arising; have the effect of preventing
Examples "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer" Used in print (Mary Savage, Just for Tonight....)The shadows of the trees engulfed her , foreclosing every possible exit from the grove . |
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[ verb ] subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage
Used in print (Gene Caesar, Rifle for Rent....)For less_than a dozen miles from the unplowed land of the dead man lived another settler who had ignored the warnings that his existence might be foreclosed on - a blatant and defiant rustler named Fred_Powell . Related terms |
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