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hock [hok]
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hock [hok]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: pawn
Synonyms: borrow, give security, pledge
Main Entry: pawn
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give as security for a loan
Synonyms: deposit, give in earnest, hazard, hock, hook*, mortgage, pledge
Main Entry: pledge
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: guarantee; give word of honor
Synonyms: contract, covenant, engage, give word, hock, hook*, mortgage, pawn, plight, promise, sign for, soak*, swear, undertake, vouch, vow
Antonyms: break, disobey, falsify
Main Entry: promise
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give word that something will be done
Synonyms: accede, affiance, affirm, agree, answer for, assent, asservate, assure, bargain, betroth, bind, commit, compact, consent, contract, covenant, cross heart, declare, engage, ensure, espouse, guarantee, hock, insure, live up to, mortgage, obligate, pass, pawn, pledge, plight, profess, say so, secure, stipulate, string along, subscribe, swear, swear on bible, swear up and down, take an oath, undertake, underwrite, vouch, vow, warrant
Antonyms: break, renege
Main Entry: dire straits
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disastrous predicament
Synonyms: desperate straits, difficulties, hardship, hock, straits
Main Entry: thigh
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: leg part
Synonyms: femur, flank, gammon, groin, ham, hock, loins
Main Entry: hypothecate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: pawn
Synonyms: deposit, give in earnest, hazard, hock, hook*, mortgage, pledge
Main Entry: immobilize
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: disable
Synonyms: action, attenuate, batter, blunt, cripple, damage, debilitate, disarm, disenable, disqualify, enervate, enfeeble, exhaust, hamstring, handicap, harm, hock, hogtie, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, kibosh, knock out, maim, mangle, mar, mutilate, muzzle, paralyze, pinion, prostrate, put out of action, render incapable, ruin, sabotage, sap*, shatter, shoot down, spoil, take out*, throw monkey wrench in, total*, unbrace, undermine, unfit, unstrengthen, weaken, wreck
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