foreclose

A verb used to indicate the act of taking possession of a property when the owner fails to make mortgage payments, or to prevent or exclude something from happening.

• 🇵🇹Verbo usado para indicar a ação de retomar ou apreender um imóvel quando o proprietário deixa de pagar as parcelas da hipoteca ou do financiamento, ou, em sentido mais amplo, para impedir, excluir ou inviabilizar algo.

1. Take possession of property C1 formal legal

   To take possession of a property because the owner has failed to repay a loan secured by that property.

   • The bank decided to foreclose on the house after six months of missed payments.
   • They lost their home when the lender foreclosed on the mortgage.
   • The court approved the bank's request to foreclose the property.

   🇵🇹Executar hipoteca

   Sinônimos: confiscateimpoundrepossessseizetake back

2. Prevent or exclude C2 formal

   To prevent something from happening or to exclude a possibility.

   • The new evidence forecloses any possibility of an appeal.
   • His actions foreclosed any chance of reconciliation.
   • The agreement forecloses the option of renegotiating the terms.

   🇵🇹Impedir

   Sinônimos: debarexcludeforestallobviateprecludepreventrule out

   Antônimos: allowenableencouragefacilitatepermit

• foreclosed past participle
• foreclosed past simple
• foreclosing present participle
• forecloses third person singular