n.

1. 抵押[U][C]
   The bank refused to accept any mortgage on land.

   銀行拒絕接受任何土地抵押。

2. 抵押借款[C]
   He has paid off the mortgage.

   他已歸還抵押借款。

3. 抵押契據[C]
4. 受押人對抵押品的權利[U][C]
   The bank foreclosed a mortgage on the property.

   銀行取消了抵押人的財產贖回權。

vt.

1. 抵押[（+to/for）]
   The house was mortgaged to the bank for fifty thousand dollars.

   這所房子抵押給銀行借得五萬元。

2. 【口】以……作擔保，把……許給[（+to）]
   Faust mortgaged his soul to the devil.

   浮士德將其靈魂獻給魔鬼。

n.

a legal agreement by which a bank, building society, etc. lends money at interest in exchange for taking title of the debtor's property, with the condition that the conveyance of title becomes void upon the payment of the debt.

v.

convey (a property) to a creditor as security on a loan.