pawn
/pɔːn/ verb [T]Definition
› to leave something with a pawnbroker, who gives you money for it and will sell it if you do not pay the money back: She pawned her wedding ring to pay the rent.
(Definition of pawn verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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