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pawn
1[ pawn ]
verb (used with object)
- to deposit as security, as for money borrowed, especially with a pawnbroker:
He raised the money by pawning his watch.
to pawn one's life.
noun
- the state of being deposited or held as security, especially with or by a pawnbroker:
jewels in pawn.
- something given or deposited as security, as for money borrowed.
Synonyms:
- a person serving as security; hostage.
- the act of pawning.
pawn
2[ pawn ]
noun
- Chess. one of eight men of one color and of the lowest value, usually moved one square at a time vertically and capturing diagonally.
- someone who is used or manipulated to further another person's purposes.
Synonyms: , ,
pawn
1/ 辫蓴藧苍 /
verb
- to deposit (an article) as security for the repayment of a loan, esp from a pawnbroker
- to stake
to pawn one's honour
noun
- an article deposited as security
- the condition of being so deposited (esp in the phrase in pawn )
- a person or thing that is held as a security, esp a hostage
- the act of pawning
pawn
2/ 辫蓴藧苍 /
noun
- a chessman of the lowest theoretical value, limited to forward moves of one square at a time with the option of two squares on its initial move: it captures with a diagonal move only P Compare piece
- a person, group, etc, manipulated by another
Derived Forms
- 藞辫补飞苍补驳别, noun
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 辫补飞苍顎僡路产濒别 adjective
- 辫补飞苍路别谤 [paw, -ner], 辫补飞路苍辞谤 [paw, -ner, -nawr], noun
- 耻苍路辫补飞苍别诲顎 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of pawn1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of pawn1
Origin of pawn2
Example Sentences
A former Beverly Hills resident and the owner of an L.A. pawn shop tried to sell stolen Andy Warhol art and lied about the scheme to federal agents, authorities said.
鈥淭he rent got too high,鈥 he said, 鈥渁nd there鈥檚 nothing we can do about it. ... Tenants are pawns to the landlords.鈥
They also accuse Trump of using children 鈥 or food for poor children in this case 鈥 as pawns for political leverage.
I鈥檝e been used as a pawn, a buffer, and been treated like I鈥檓 downright stupid too.
"He has unwillingly become a pawn in the troubled relationship between Paris and Algiers," a committee of his supporters in France said recently.
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