hypothecate

hypothecate has 3 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 11.

Definitions

• v. t.. 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.
• v.. to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"
• v.. pledge without delivery or title of possession