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   liq·ui·date

   /ˈlikwəˌdāt/

   verb

   • 1. wind up the affairs of (a company or firm) by ascertaining liabilities and apportioning assets: "if the company was liquidated, there would be enough funds released to honor the debts" Similar close downwind upput into liquidationdissolvebreak updisbandterminate
   • ▪ (of a company) undergo liquidation: "the company would have the strength to reorganize and not be forced to liquidate"
   • ▪ convert (assets) into cash: "a plan to liquidate $10,000,000 worth of property over seven years" Similar convert to cashconvertcashcash insell offsell uprealize
   • ▪ pay off (a debt): "the fund was raided for purposes other than liquidating the public debt" Similar pay offpaypay in fullsettlecleardischargesquaremake goodhonordefraysatisfyaccount forremit
   • 2. eliminate, typically by violent means; kill: informal "rivals and critics were liquidated in bloody purges"

   Word Origin mid 16th century (in the sense ‘set out (accounts) clearly’): from medieval Latin liquidat- ‘made clear’, from the verb liquidare, from Latin liquidus (see liquid). liquidate (sense 1) was influenced by Italian liquidare and French liquider, liquidate (sense 2) by Russian likvidirovatʹ.

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