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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Nothing shows this difference more clearly than the way in which each will pawn his watch.
From Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
And I will pawn mine earldom with my love, And lose them both, if I lose Honorea.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt
I will pawn my life that he either was never called upon to give an opinion, or that he gave an opinion adverse to the course which has been taken.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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
"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
