Difference between Prevent and Foreclose

PREVENT vs FORECLOSE: VERB

Keep from happening or arising; have the effect of preventing
Subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage
To prevent from doing something
To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments
Keep from happening or arising; make impossible

To settle or resolve beforehand.
To exclude or rule out; bar.
To bring a suit to prevent a mortgagor from redeeming (a property) by paying any outstanding debt.
To enforce (a lien, deed of trust, or mortgage) in whatever manner is provided for by law.

To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.
To cut him off by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises, termed his equity of redemption.
(not technically correct, but often used to signify) the obtaining a judgment for the payment of an overdue mortgage, and the exposure of the mortgaged property to sale to meet the mortgage debt.

To go before; be earlier than; anticipate; forestall.
To take previous measures against; hence, to frustrate; disappoint; evade; escape.
To hinder from action by the opposition of obstacles; impede; restrain; check; preclude: generally followed by from.
To keep from existing or occurring; render impossible.
Synonyms To preclude, bar, debar.
To come beforehand; come before others, or before the usual time.
To interpose a hindrance, especially an insurmountable obstacle; interpose an effectual check; hinder.
Keep from happening or arising
Make impossible

To shut out; exclude; prevent.
In law: To shut out by a judicial decree from further opportunity to assert a right or claim: said of the process by which all persons previously having right to redeem property from a forfeiture for non-payment of a debt are finally cut off from that right: as, to foreclose a mortgager of his equity of redemption.
Hence— To enforce, as a mortgage, by shutting out in due process of law a mortgager and those claiming under him from the right to redeem the property mortgaged.
Keep from happening or arising
To enforce a mortgage.
Make impossible

Stop, Minimize, Stem, Dissuade, Protect, Thwart, Avert, Discourage, Avoid, Deter, Foreclose, Keep, Forbid, Preclude, Forestall

Excludes, Capture, Hamper, Exclude, Prohibit, Hinder, Jeopardize, Block, Impede, Seize, Mortgage, Prevent, Forbid, Forestall, Preclude

Stop, Minimize, Stem, Dissuade, Protect, Thwart, Avert, Discourage, Avoid, Deter, Foreclose, Keep, Forbid, Preclude, Forestall

Repossess, Capture, Hamper, Exclude, Prohibit, Hinder, Jeopardize, Block, Impede, Seize, Mortgage, Prevent, Forbid, Forestall, Preclude

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The mortgagee cannot foreclose or sue for sale.
Form of notice to foreclose lien for assessments.
Compass ultimately moved to foreclose on the property.
Again, I think there is the issue of the congruence of the incentives to foreclose, not foreclose, forbear, not forbear.
Action to foreclose a tax lien as in an action to foreclose a mortgage.
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The mortgagee, Chase, apparently obtained leave to foreclose from the bankruptcy court to foreclose and purchased the property at the foreclosure sale.
In some states, to maintain the right to foreclose, a creditor must foreclose the collateral securing the debt before seeking other collection remedies.
Question of three mortgage sample notice of intent foreclose are unsure if at a loan specifies the state the two may foreclose.
Period may be on the public officer that of foreclose on deposit, and current or financial advice to foreclose?