| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To capture, grab, grasp, seize or apprehend.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To catch, fascinate, recapture, snatch or tackle. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To notice or perceive. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To find or strike. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To comprehend, embrace, realize or understand. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To attach, lash or secure. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To confiscate, distrain, impound or sequestrate. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To captivate or grapple. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To receive or accept.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Present participle 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] | |
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Date "FORECLOSING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
Specialty Definition: foreclose
| Domain | Definition | ||
| 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. | ||
| Literature | 1: "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. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [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) | |
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