foreclosing in English

verb
1
take possession of a mortgaged property as a result of the mortgagor's failure to keep up their mortgage payments.
the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage
2
rule out or prevent (a course of action).
the decision effectively foreclosed any possibility of his early rehabilitation
verb

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1. Spittals, like some demented bailiff, would soon be foreclosing on her debt.

2. E — The evidence of an overall strategy aimed at foreclosing AMD’s access to the most important sales channels

3. He must, in any event, have felt that the pressures were foreclosing the issue against his original instinct.

4. Ability and incentive to control gas price and raise rivals’ costs, thereby foreclosing its actual and potential and deterring entry

5. Banks are foreclosing on America's Churches in record numbers as lenders increasingly lose patience with religious facilities that have defaulted on their mortgages, according to new data.