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foreclose as in:  foreclose on the loan

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    They were able to renegotiate their loan terms and avoid foreclosure.
    foreclosable = loss of property due to unpaid loan
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    Few strangers passed through Welch these days, and almost all who did came to inflict one form of misery or another—to lay off workers, to shut down a mine, to foreclose on someone's house, to compete for the rare job opening.  (source)
    foreclose = take a property from a borrower who did not pay a loan
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    Within its walls there were half a dozen people who had still not recovered from the shock of having their apartments foreclosed (and then having to sue to get them back) when Joe defaulted on his construction loan.  (source)
    foreclosed = take a property from a borrower who did not pay a loan that was secured by the property
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    You know in your gut whom to carry and whom to foreclose.†  (source)
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    The city of Edmonton foreclosed, and the Pollards lost everything but their house.  (source)
    foreclosed = took property for an unpaid loan
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    And you, Madam, will kindly refrain from undoing my work behind my back and foreclosing mortgages on any of the people I'm courting or selling them rotten lumber or in other ways insulting them.†  (source)
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    Of course, he never intended to collect the money-instead he would foreclose on any land or equipment they happened to own.†  (source)
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    He had just foreclosed on a house and offered to rent it to us on a month-to-month basis.  (source)
    foreclosed = taken property from a borrower who had not paid their loan
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    He was on the point of foreclosing a mortgage, by which he would complete the ruin of an unlucky land-speculator for whom he had professed the greatest friendship.†  (source)
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    And since she had been in default for so long, they could foreclose and sell the land far more quickly than normal.†  (source)
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    But the Website I'd found had been very specific about there being this huge parcel of oft-foreclosed land that no one had ever managed to develop.†  (source)
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    Especially in the mid-20th century, as manufacturing employment was rocketing toward its zenith, mistakes and disadvantages in childhood and adolescence did not foreclose adult opportunity.†  (source)
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    Mike and I took turns mowing all the abandoned foreclosed properties in the complex—heavy rains in the spring had turned yards into jungles, which encouraged an influx of raccoons.†  (source)
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foreclose as in:  foreclose the possibility

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This new evidence forecloses the possibility of him being innocent.
forecloses = rules out
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    The violation forecloses any possibility of the promotion.
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    Whatever pleasure they might have found in their expanded quarters was foreclosed before they ever reached home.  (source)
    foreclosed = prevented
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