foreclosable

Variant of foreclose

transitive verb foreclosed, foreclosing

  1. to shut out; exclude; bar
  2. to extinguish the right to redeem (a mortgage) by foreclosure
  3. to deprive (a mortgagor) of this right by foreclosure
  4. to hinder or prevent
  5. to claim exclusively

Origin: ME forclosen < OFr forclos, pp. of forclore, to exclude < fors (< L foris: see door), outside + clore (< L claudere), close

intransitive verb

to foreclose a mortgage

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