MORTGAGE Synonyms: 18 Similar and Opposite Words

mortgage

verb

as in to commit

to obligate by prior agreement I've mortgaged all my free time this week to the hospice and won't be able to come to the party

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

renege

Examples of mortgage in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The film, an $100 million passion project that Costner mortgaged his land to make, earned $5.5 million over the weekend, bringing its domestic total to a disastrous $22.2 million. —

Brent Lang, Variety, 7 July 2024 And the sense that the Lakers’ future has been mortgaged to please one player is real. —

Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2024 Yet neither candidate will acknowledge that their policies are mortgaging the future not just of coming generations, but today’s workers if, say, a sudden spike in our burgeoning borrowing costs forces a sudden, draconian jump in taxes. —

Beth Greenfield, Fortune, 1 July 2024 The manager mortgaged his home in order to fund her debut album La voix du bon Dieu. —

Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 13 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for mortgage

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