verb
- Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing.
- usage: "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"
- synonyms: neutralize, neutralise, waste, knock off, do in
- Eliminate by paying off (debts.
- synonyms: pay off
- Convert into cash.
- usage: "I had to liquidate my holdings to pay off my ex-husband"
- Settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off.
- usage: "liquidate a company"
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