Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Mortgage \Mort"gage\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mortgaged}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Mortgaging}.]
1. (Law) To grant or convey, as property, for the security of
a debt, or other engagement, upon a condition that if the
debt or engagement shall be discharged according to the
contract, the conveyance shall be void, otherwise to
become absolute, subject, however, to the right of
redemption.
2. Hence: To pledge, either literally or figuratively; to
make subject to a claim or obligation.
Mortgaging their lives to covetise. --Spenser.
I myself an mortgaged to thy will. --Shak.
Source : WordNet®
mortgaged
adj : burdened with legal or financial obligations; "his house,
his business, indeed, his whole life was heavily
mortgaged"