Foreclose vs Sequestrate - What's the difference?
foreclose | sequestrate |
To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments.
To cut off (a mortgager) by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises.
To prevent from doing something.
To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.
* Carew
To sequester.
(mycology) Having enclosed underground or partially buried fruiting bodies, like a truffle.
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As verbs the difference between foreclose and sequestrate
is that foreclose is to repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments while sequestrate is to sequester.As an adjective sequestrate is
(mycology) having enclosed underground or partially buried fruiting bodies, like a truffle.foreclose
English
(Foreclosure)Verb
(en-verb)- They have to move out of their house because the bank foreclosed on their mortgage.
- The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade.