foreclose
/fɔːˈkləʊz/verb
1
- no obj. take possession of a mortgaged property as a result of someone's failure to keep up their mortgage payments（因抵押人未能还贷）止赎, 取消回赎抵押品的权利：
the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage.
银行威胁要取消他的回赎抵押权。
1.1
- with obj. take away someone's power of redeeming (a mortgage) and take possession of the mortgaged property取消回赎（抵押品）的权利。
2
- with obj. rule out or prevent (a course of action)排除, 防止（行动）：
the decision effectively foreclosed any possibility of his early rehabilitation.
决定有效排除了他早日恢复名誉的可能。
词源
Middle English: from Old French forclos, past participle of forclore, from for- 'out' （from Latin foras 'outside'） + clore 'to close'. The original sense was 'bar from escaping', in late Middle English 'shut out', and 'bar from doing something' (sense 2), hence specifically 'bar someone from redeeming a mortgage' （sense 1, early 18th cent.）.