单词 | foreclose |
释义 | foreclose (once / 1320 pages) 1v 2v WORD FAMILY foreclose: foreclosed, forecloses, foreclosing, foreclosure+/foreclosure: foreclosures USAGE EXAMPLESHowever freakishly contingent his triumph, it forecloses the future feminists imagined at least for a long while. Slate(Dec 27, 2016) Many of these homes were foreclosed on during the housing crisis. New York Times(Dec 26, 2016) Now the property is being foreclosed upon, so the quartet needs to sell the manger. Washington Post(Dec 15, 2016) 1 v keep from happening or arising; make impossible 2Syn|Hypo forbid, forestall, preclude, prevent make unnecessary, save make unnecessary an expenditure or effort avert, avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward offprevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening block, blockade, embarrass, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymyhinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwarthinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of block, halt, kibosh, stopstop from happening or developing stonewallobstruct or hinder any discussion disappoint, let downfail to meet the hopes or expectations of embargoprevent commerce filibusterobstruct deliberately by delaying checkblock or impede (a player from the opposing team) in ice hockey hangprevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury bottleneckslow down or impede by creating an obstruction dashdestroy or break short-circuithamper the progress of; impede ruindestroy or cause to fail staystop a judicial process v subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage Hyper reclaim, repossess claim back |
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