mortgaged
- 1Simple past and past participle of mortgage.
She mortgaged the property to fund her daughter's college education.
The couple had mortgaged nearly everything they owned before the venture collapsed.
Note
One spelling does double duty: it is the simple past (she mortgaged the house) and also the participle after have or in the passive (the farm was mortgaged). Because the verb is transitive, the participle readily describes the property itself, so a mortgaged house is one pledged against a loan. The figurative use carries over as well: to have mortgaged the future is to have bought something now at a long-term cost.
The farm was mortgaged to the bank before the harvest failed.
In chasing a quick win, they had mortgaged their own future.
mortgaged is a form of mortgage
mortgage, verb: To pledge a house or piece of land as security in order to obtain a loan, giving the lender the right to seize it. Full entry
- Forms
- mortgagemortgages he/she/itmortgaging -ing formmortgaged past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- mortgage → mortgaged: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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