All 7 Uses

mortgage
in
The God of Small Things
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Almost immediately, the financial slide began, but was artificially buoyed by extravagant bank loans that Chacko raised by mortgaging the family's rice fields around the Ayemenem House.†
Chpt 2

mortgaging = pledging as collateral (something that has to be given to the lender if the loan isn't paid as agreed)
He stared straight ahead with his mortgaged eye.†
Chpt 2

mortgaged = pledged as collateral (something that has to be given to the lender if the loan isn't paid as agreed)
But he had the satisfaction of knowing that his lightning-quick reflexes (despite his mortgaged eye) and his presence of mind had put an end to the bloodthirsty wanderings of a pedophile ghost.†
Chpt 10
How he put it down for just one moment while he kneeled to wash the river-grit out of his mortgaged eye (there was grit in the river sometimes, particularly in the rainy months) when he caught the first whiff of cigar smoke.†
Chpt 10
When Mammachi arrived in the kitchen, in her petticoat and pale pink dressing gown with rickrack edging, Vellya Paapen climbed up the kitchen steps and offered her his mortgaged eye.†
Chpt 13
As a Paravan and a man with mortgaged body parts, he considered it his duty.†
Chpt 13
After Paradise Pickles closed down, some rice fields were sold (along with their mortgages) to pay off the bank loans.†
Chpt 14 *

mortgages = real estate loans; or pledges something for a loan

Definitions:

(1) (mortgage)
a real estate loan; or to offer real estate as collateral for a loan

(collateral is something that has to be given to the lender if the loan isn't paid as agreed)
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)