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		 noun |  verb mortgagemortgage1 /ˈmɔrgɪdʒ/ ●○○ W3 noun [countable] ETYMOLOGYmortgage1Origin: 1300-1400 Old French mort dead +  gage promise   ► have a ... mortgage on We still have a $180,000 mortgage on the house. ► mortgage payment The mortgage payment will be around a thousand dollars a month. ► taken out a mortgage Barb and Joe have taken out a mortgage on their first house. ► paid off our mortgage We paid off our mortgage  (=finished paying for the mortgage) last September.    a legal arrangement in which you borrow money from a bank in order to buy a house, and pay back the money over a period of years: mortgage on We still have a $180,000 mortgage on the house. The mortgage payment will be around a thousand dollars a month. Barb and Joe have taken out a mortgage on their first house. We paid off our mortgage  (=finished paying for the mortgage) last September. [Origin: 1300–1400 Old French mort dead +  gage promise] → see also second mortgage noun |  verb mortgagemortgage2 verb [transitive] VERB TABLEmortgage |
 | Present | I, you, we, they | mortgage |   | he, she, it | mortgages |  | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | mortgaged |  | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have mortgaged |   | he, she, it | has mortgaged |  | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had mortgaged |  | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will mortgage |  | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have mortgaged |  
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 | Present | I | am mortgaging |   | he, she, it | is mortgaging |   | you, we, they | are mortgaging |  | Past | I, he, she, it | was mortgaging |   | you, we, they | were mortgaging |  | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been mortgaging |   | he, she, it | has been mortgaging |  | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been mortgaging |  | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be mortgaging |  | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been mortgaging |  
    ► mortgaged to the hilt Everything I own is mortgaged to the hilt  (=the total amount that can be borrowed has been borrowed).   1if you mortgage your home, land, or property, you borrow money, usually from a bank, and give the bank the right to own your property if you do not pay the money back:  We mortgaged our house to start Paul’s business. Everything I own is mortgaged to the hilt  (=the total amount that can be borrowed has been borrowed).2mortgage somebody’s future to do something that will make things very difficult for someone in the future:  Our lack of respect for the environment is mortgaging our children’s future. |