Synonyms of mortgage

mortgage

verb

as in to commit

to obligate by prior agreement

I've mortgaged all my free time this week to the hospice and won't be able to come to the party

Synonyms & Similar Words

• commit
• pledge
• troth
• vow
• engage
• plight
• promise
• enrol
• contract
• swear
• affiance
• enroll
• sign on
• enlist
• sign up
• betroth
• overcommit

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• renege

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of mortgage

The trade deadline talk of not mortgaging the future will remain for the next few weeks, but games like Wednesday are much needed for any direction the franchise chooses. —Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2025

From the team perspective, the Walker signing indicates the Astros are willing to mortgage the future to assemble a win-now roster. —Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024

Lifelong Knick fanatic here who refuses to warm to this team after our management utterly mortgaged the team's future via its absurd overpay of 4 unprotected #1s (plus a 2028 swap, plus the Bucks #1 in 2025), years in advance, for a very good, but hardly franchise-worthy, player. —James L. Edwards Iii, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025

Don’t allow Grier and McDaniel to mortgage the future in a desperate effort to win in 2025. —Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2025