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Liquidate

ˈlɪkwɪdeɪt

Liquidate definitions

verb

Inflections:

liquidate liquidated liquidates liquidating

wind up the affairs of (a business) by ascertaining liabilities and apportioning assets

"if the company was liquidated, there would be enough funds released to honour the debts"

Synonyms:
close down wind up put into liquidation dissolve break up disband terminate
- (of a business) go into liquidation
  
  "the company would have the strength to reorganize and not be forced to liquidate"
- convert (assets) into cash
  
  "a plan to liquidate £1 billion worth of property over seven years"
- pay off (a debt)
  
  "the fund was raided for purposes other than liquidating the public debt"
kill (someone), typically by violent means

"rivals and critics were liquidated in bloody purges"

Synonyms:
massacre murder butcher kill kill off annihilate exterminate execute liquidate eliminate destroy decimate wipe out mow down cut down cut to pieces put to the sword put to death send to the gas chambers