foreclose

[Fore*close·]

Keep from happening or arising; make impossible

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To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

Verb
subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage

Verb
keep from happening or arising; have the effect of preventing; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"

v. t.
To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

Foreclose

Fore*close" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foreclosed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Foreclosing .] [F. forclos, p.p. of forclore to exclude; OF. fors, F. hors, except, outside (fr. L. foris outside) + F. clore to close. See Foreign, and Close, v. t.] To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade.

To foreclose a mortgager (Law), to cut him off by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises, termed his equity of redemption. -- To foreclose a mortgage, (not technically correct, but often used to signify) the obtaining a judgment for the payment of an overdue mortgage, and the exposure of the mortgaged property to sale to meet the mortgage debt. Wharton.

To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

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