pawning

present participle of pawn
as in depositing
to leave as a guarantee of repayment of a loan he pawned his antique watch in order to pay off his gambling debt

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  • Jackson got Baltimore on the board after Seymour issued his second leadoff walk, depositing a letter-high first-pitch fastball into the left-field bleachers to put the Orioles up 2-1.
    Evan Webeck, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
  • There’s a Gambit-adjacent one that has players depositing motes while killing other teams.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
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  • Shein is far from the first online retailer to run into trouble with third-party vendors hocking controversial wares or flouting policy standards.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Pawning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pawning. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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