mortgaged

1. 1.

   burdened with legal or financial obligations

   “his house, his business, indeed, his whole life was heavily mortgaged”

   Similarencumbered

Other forms of mortgaged

comparative

mortgagedder·

superlative

mortgageddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mortgaged

What does mortgaged mean?

mortgaged means "burdened with legal or financial obligations".

How many syllables are in mortgaged?

mortgaged has 2 syllables: mort-gaged. The stress falls on "mort". In IPA it is /ˈmɔɹɡɪdʒd/.

Is mortgaged a common word?

mortgaged is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.