Pilar
Tutor della CommunityHey guys, can anyone please tell me what the word mortgaged means in the following sentence?
They would have mortgaged another precious
portion of the little time left us for individual life.
20 gen 2025 15:23
Risposte · 4
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Metaphorically, it means they have sacrificed their freedom to do as they please by accepting some burdensome obligation.
20 gen 2025 20:51
1
This is an oddly phrased answer but mortgage is the loan from a bank (or other) to buy a house. So mortgages means saved away/put away/ given to.
20 gen 2025 18:18
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Inglese, Tedesco, Italiano, Portoghese, Spagnolo
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Tedesco
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