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to foreclose
01
(of a bank) to take away someone's property because they have not repaid the money they borrowed from the bank in order to buy it
Grammatical Information
Composition
derived
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
foreclose
3rd person singular
forecloses
Present participle
foreclosing
Past simple
foreclosed
Past participle
foreclosed
Examples
The bank threatens to foreclose on the house if the homeowner does not make the overdue payment by next month.
02
keep from happening or arising; make impossible
Lexical Tree
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