pawn
verb (used with object)
to deposit as security, as for money borrowed, especially with a pawnbroker.
will pawn
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future tenseof pawn.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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She will pawn the coat off your back to play.
From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray
Has gained considerable fame, as his products will pawn on a good margin.
From Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be by Irwin Leslie Gordon
One half of the sum," said he, "shall be laid out in jewels, which I will pawn to certain persons of credit and fortune, who lend money upon such pledges at an exorbitant interest.
From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by T. (Tobias) Smollett
"If there is not money enough in Aragon," she cried, "I will undertake this adventure for my own kingdom of Castile, and if need be I will pawn my jewels to do it."
From This Country of Ours by H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall
Lordly rules he, late and early— In the granary; when gone Every kernel of provision, The last cattle he will pawn.
From Russian Lyrics by Martha Dickinson Bianchi
