foreclose
English
/ˌfɔːˈkləʊz/, /ˌfɔɹˈkloʊz/
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments; used with on.
- (transitive) To cut off (a mortgager) by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises.
- (transitive) To shut up or out; to prevent from doing something.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English foreclosen derived from Old French forclos inherited from Middle English forclusen (close up) inherited from Old English forclȳsan (close up) prefix from English close (enclosed) root from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kleh₂w- (hook, peg, crook, a peg, a crook).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)kleh₂w-
Gloss
hook, peg, crook, a peg, a crook
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- abocclusion English
- autoclose English
- beclose English
- benocclusion English
- claustral English
- claustrum English
- clavichord English
- cloisterless English
- cloisterlike English
- cloistress English
- closability English
- closable English
- close English
- close stoole English
- close-handed English
- close-stool English
- closeability English
- closeable English
- closeby English
- closefisted English
- closehanded English
- closely English
- closeminded English
- closemouthed English
- closen English
- closeness English
- closereefed English
- closestool English
- closet English
- closeth English
- closish English
- cloyingly English
- disocclusion English
- encloister English
- enclose English
- exclusive English
- foreclosable English
- foreclosee English
- forecloser English
- inclusively English
- inclusiveness English
- inclusivity English
- interclose English
- malocclusion English
- misclose English
- non-exclusive English
- nonoccluded English
- nonocclusion English
- number close English
- occluder English
- occlusive English
- overclose English
- overinclusivity English
- postocclusion English
- pre-occluded English
- preocclusion English
- reclose English
- reocclude English
- reocclusion English
- unclose English
- unoccluded English
- upclose English
- vasoocclusion English
- circumcludo Latin
- claustrum Latin
- clausum Latin
- clausus Latin
- clavis Latin
- clāvis Latin
- clāvus Latin
- clāvīcula Latin
- excludo Latin
- exclusio Latin
- exclusivus Latin
- exclusiō Latin
- exclūdō Latin
- includo Latin
- inclusio Latin
- inclusio, inclusionis Latin
- inclūdere, inclūdō Latin
- inclūdō Latin
- inclūsus Latin
- occludo Latin
- occludĕre Latin
- occlūdō Latin
- occlūsiōnem, occlūsiō Latin
- cloisonné French
- clos French
- κλείς Ancient Greek
- *(s)kleh₂w- Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)kleh₂w-, *kleh₂u- Proto-Indo-European
- *kleh₂ud-, *kleh₂u- Proto-Indo-European
- *klāw- Proto-Indo-European
- forclȳsan Old English
- closen Middle English
- forclusen Middle English
- foreclosen Middle English
- clós Irish
- cloistrier Old French
- forclos Old French
- cloistral Middle French
- *klāwos Proto-Celtic
- achlwedd Proto-Brythonic
- κλᾳ̃θρα grc-dor
- close
- closen
- closet
- unclose
- closeth
- closely
- enclose
- closeby
- closish
- beclose
- upclose
- reclose
- closable
- occluder
- misclose
- claustrum
- cloyingly
- reocclude
- closeness
- closeable
- overclose
- autoclose
- occlusive
- claustral
- exclusive
- encloister
- unoccluded
- foreclosee
- forecloser
- interclose
- cloistress
- clavichord
- closestool
- closehanded
- closeminded
- closability
- inclusivity
- abocclusion
- reocclusion
- nonoccluded
- close-stool
- closefisted
- inclusively
- closereefed
- number close
- close stoole
- close-handed
- disocclusion
- cloisterlike
- cloisterless
- closemouthed
- closeability
- foreclosable
- benocclusion
- malocclusion
- preocclusion
- pre-occluded
- nonocclusion
- non-exclusive
- inclusiveness
- vasoocclusion
- postocclusion
- overinclusivity