FORECLOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foreclose mean? 

• FORECLOSE (verb)
  The verb FORECLOSE has 2 senses:

1. keep from happening or arising; make impossible

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

  Familiarity information: FORECLOSE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORECLOSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they foreclose    ... he / she / it forecloses   
Past simple: foreclosed   
Past participle: foreclosed   
-ing form: foreclosing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Keep from happening or arising; make impossible

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

forbid; foreclose; forestall; preclude; prevent

Context example:

Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "foreclose"):

inhibit (prohibit, forbid, or prevent from doing something)

make unnecessary; save (make unnecessary an expenditure or effort)

avert; avoid; debar; deflect; fend off; forefend; forfend; head off; obviate; stave off; ward off (prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening)

block; blockade; embarrass; hinder; obstruct; stymie; stymy (hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of)

baffle; bilk; cross; foil; frustrate; queer; scotch; spoil; thwart (hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of)

block; halt; kibosh; stop (stop from happening or developing)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "foreclose" is one way to...):

reclaim; repossess (claim back)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

foreclosure (the legal proceedings initiated by a creditor to repossess the collateral for loan that is in default)