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Definition: FORECLOSED

Part of Speech Definition
Verb 1. Of Foreclose.[Websters]
2. To be dispossessed. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. To have confiscated or recaptured. [Eve - graph theoretic]
4. To be worried. [Eve - graph theoretic]
5. To have confined, secured, lashed, captivated or entered. [Eve - graph theoretic]
6. To be secluded. [Eve - graph theoretic]
7. To have captured, grappled, tackled, received or nabbed. [Eve - graph theoretic]
8. To have realized or embraced. [Eve - graph theoretic]
9. To have removed, deprived, collected, enacted or absorbed. [Eve - graph theoretic]
10. To have obstructed or debarred.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Past Tense 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb foreclose.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(foreclose)
1. Keep from happening or arising; make impossible.[Wordnet].
2. Subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage.[Wordnet].
3. To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.[Websters].
4. Base verb from the following inflections: foreclosing, foreclosed, forecloses, forecloser, foreclosers, foreclosingly and foreclosedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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"Foreclosed" is a common misspelling or typo for: forecloses.

Date "Foreclosed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1803. (references)

Definition: FORECLOSED

Part of SpeechDefinition
Verb1. Of Foreclose.[Websters]
2. To be dispossessed. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. To have confiscated or recaptured. [Eve - graph theoretic]
4. To be worried. [Eve - graph theoretic]
5. To have confined, secured, lashed, captivated or entered. [Eve - graph theoretic]
6. To be secluded. [Eve - graph theoretic]
7. To have captured, grappled, tackled, received or nabbed. [Eve - graph theoretic]
8. To have realized or embraced. [Eve - graph theoretic]
9. To have removed, deprived, collected, enacted or absorbed. [Eve - graph theoretic]
10. To have obstructed or debarred.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Past Tense1. Past tense conjugation of the verb foreclose.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(foreclose)
1. Keep from happening or arising; make impossible.[Wordnet].
2. Subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage.[Wordnet].
3. To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.[Websters].
4. Base verb from the following inflections: foreclosing, foreclosed, forecloses, forecloser, foreclosers, foreclosingly and foreclosedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "FORECLOSED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1803. (references)

Specialty Definition: foreclose

DomainDefinition
Noah Webster [Verb] s as z. To shut up; to preclude; to stop; to prevent. The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade. To foreclose a mortgager, in law, is to cut him off from his equity of redemption, or the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises, by a judgment of court. [To foreclose a mortgage is not technically correct, but is often used.]. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Literature1: "The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade." - Carew.
2: Foreclose To put an end to. A legal term, meaning to close before the time specified; e.g. suppose I held the mortgage of a man called A, and A fails to fulfil his part of the agreement, I can insist upon the mortgage being cancelled, foreclosing thus our agreement. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Wiktionary1: [Verb] to prevent from doing something. (references)
 2: [Verb] to repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments They have to move out of their house because the bank foreclosed on their mortgage. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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