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Synonyms for pawned


Grammar : Adj
Spell : pawn
Phonetic Transcription : pɔn



Définition of pawned

Origin :
  • "something left as security," late 15c. (mid-12c. as Anglo-Latin pandum), from Old French pan, pant "pledge, security," also "booty, plunder," perhaps from Frankish or some other Germanic source (cf. Old High German pfant, German Pfand, Middle Dutch pant, Old Frisian pand "pledge"), from West Germanic *panda, of unknown origin.
  • The Old French word is identical to pan "cloth, piece of cloth," from Latin pannum (nominative pannus) "cloth, piece of cloth, garment" and Klein's sources feel this is the source of both the Old French and West Germanic words (perhaps on the notion of cloth used as a medium of exchange).
  • adj deposited
Example sentences :
  • Thrice at a crisis I pawned my watch, and thrice I rallied and rescued it.
  • Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro
  • In half an hour my watch was pawned, and the affair concluded.
  • Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro
  • The volume had undoubtedly been stolen, and pawned by the thief.
  • Extract from : « Aztec Land » by Maturin M. Ballou
  • He pawned a snake-shaped ring, and they identified this Walenn by it.
  • Extract from : « The First and The Last » by John Galsworthy
  • He sat up and groped for his watch, then remembered he had pawned it after the poker game.
  • Extract from : « The Hoofer » by Walter M. Miller
  • She pawned them on these first two occasions I've described.
  • Extract from : « The Winning Clue » by James Hay, Jr.
  • I say she pawned them, but I never had definite proof of it.
  • Extract from : « The Winning Clue » by James Hay, Jr.
  • Before, when she pawned them, her father was wealthy; and she was his favourite child.
  • Extract from : « The Winning Clue » by James Hay, Jr.
  • This man, he has pawned things before, these very same things.
  • Extract from : « The Winning Clue » by James Hay, Jr.
  • So I went to Stowley and pawned it, then took a deep sea voyage for a year.
  • Extract from : « The Opal Serpent » by Fergus Hume

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