Synonyms of the word foreclose


FORECLOSEFORBID - FORESTALL - PRECLUDE - PREVENT - RECLAIM - REPOSSESS

foreclose

  • v. (transitive) To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments;…
  • v. (transitive) To cut off (a mortgager) by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged…
  • v. (transitive) To prevent from doing something.
  • v. (transitive) To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

forbid

  • v. (transitive) To disallow; to proscribe.
  • v. (transitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
  • v. (transitive) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To accurse; to blast.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To defy; to challenge.

forestall

  • v. (transitive) To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to…
  • v. (transitive) To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
  • v. (archaic) To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly…
  • v. To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
  • v. To deprive (with of).
  • v. (Britain, law) To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the…
  • n. (obsolete or historical) An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue.
  • n. Something situated or placed in front.

preclude

  • v. (transitive) Remove the possibility of; rule out; prevent or exclude; to make impossible.

prevent

  • v. (transitive) To stop; to keep from.
  • v. (intransitive, now rare) To take preventative measures.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To come before; to precede.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To outdo, surpass.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.

reclaim

  • v. (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
  • v. (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
  • v. (transitive) To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
  • v. (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
  • v. (transitive) To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
  • v. To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
  • v. To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
  • v. (obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.
  • n. (obsolete, falconry) The calling back of a hawk.
  • n. (obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
  • n. An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.

repossess

  • v. (law) To reclaim ownership of property for which payment remains due.
  • v. (dated, reflexive) To gain back possession of.

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