pawn
verb (used with object)
to deposit as security, as for money borrowed, especially with a pawnbroker.
will have pawned
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future perfectof pawn.future perfect
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
Example Sentences
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In such a conflict it will be Germany, and not France, that will have pawned her strength to the English-speaking peoples on the high seas.
From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
