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English to English verb
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pledge without delivery or title of possession |  | source: wordnet30
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to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | | Example: Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps
source: wordnet30
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To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry. | | source: webster1913
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