Liquidate

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To pay off (a debt, claim, or obligation); settle.
  • intransitive verb. To settle the affairs of (a business firm, for example) by determining the liabilities and applying the assets to their discharge.
  • intransitive verb. To convert (assets) into cash.
  • intransitive verb. To eliminate, especially by killing.
  • intransitive verb. To settle a debt, claim, or obligation.
  • intransitive verb. To settle the affairs of a business or estate by disposing of its assets and liabilities.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make clear or plain; clarify; free from obscurity.
  • To clear up; reduce to order or precision; settle the particulars of; adjust: as, to liquidate the affairs of a bankrupt firm. See liquidation.
  • To clear off; settle; pay: as, to liquidate a debt or a mortgage.
  • To make less harsh and offensive: as, to liquidate the harshness of sound.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of (each indebtedness); to make the amount of (an indebtedness) clear and certain.
  • transitive verb. In an extended sense: To ascertain the amount, or the several amounts, of, and apply assets toward the discharge of (an indebtedness).
  • transitive verb. To discharge; to pay off or settle, as an indebtedness.
  • transitive verb. To make clear and intelligible.
  • transitive verb. To make liquid.
  • transitive verb. To convert (assets) into cash.
  • transitive verb. To kill; -- used mostly of governments or organizations killing their enemies.
  • transitive verb. To dissolve (an organization); to terminate (an activity).
  • transitive verb. damages the amount of which is fixed or ascertained.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.
  • verb. To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts.
  • verb. To convert (assets) into cash.
  • verb. To do away with.
  • verb. To kill.
  • verb. To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); to make the amount of (a debt) clear and certain.
  • verb. To make clear and intelligible.
  • verb. To make liquid.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. convert into cash
  • verb. get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
  • verb. settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off
  • verb. eliminate by paying off (debts)
  • Word Usage
    "Liquidate liquidate liquidate is not going to lead us to an equilibrium point, either."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cash  cash in  kill  settle  
    Synonym
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