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foreclose

verb as in exclude

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verb as in take away the right to redeem a mortgage

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Yet, unsurprisingly, with hopes for social change at home foreclosed and few economic alternatives, migration only increased after the wars ended.

After the Great Recession, millions of foreclosed homes hit the market as the economy cratered.

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It’s worth noting that the majority opinion in Van Buren does not foreclose any possibility that someone will be prosecuted for a trivial transgression.

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If it forecloses a young person getting a job, that has longer-run adverse implications for what we call their human capital accumulation.

Opportunity is going to be foreclosed to millions of low-income people because they can’t afford to gain access to the digital highway through Internet service providers.

From Time

Yet Texas does not foreclose professional opportunities for him.

When the stakes are as high as these, checking privilege can foreclose important advances in human psychology.

What they have done is foreclose any meaningful response by the AP.

We cannot foreclose the possibility that a strike against Iran might one day be defensible or necessary.

Why rush to foreclose on a homeowner owing $250,000 on a property valued, post-bubble, at $200,000?

They foreclose without mercy, but that does not frighten their old patrons, who have the perennial optimism of the country.

He's to foreclose that mortgage and longs to own that one field of ours just to complete the shape of his farm.

My husband died paying it, and my son will pay it all my life, and then I suppose the bank will foreclose.

Yesterday I served notice on him by mail that we would have to go ahead and foreclose right away.

Laflin came to Ingleside; came to foreclose a poor man's liberty, without a day of redemption.

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On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to foreclose, such as: preclude, bar, deprive, prevent, rule out, and shut out.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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