liquidate
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɪkwədeɪt/, /ˈlɪkwɪdeɪt/
Audio (US) (file)
Etymology
From Medieval Latin liquidatus (“liquid, clear”), past participle of liquidare. The sense "to kill, do away with" is a semantic loan from Russian ликвиди́ровать (likvidírovatʹ), ultimately from Latin liquidus.
Verb
liquidate (third-person singular simple present liquidates, present participle liquidating, simple past and past participle liquidated)
- (transitive) To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.
- W. Coxe
- Friburg was ceded to Zurich by Sigismund to liquidate a debt of a thousand florins.
- W. Coxe
- (transitive) To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts.
- (transitive) To convert (assets) into cash; to redeem.
- (law, transitive) To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); to make the amount of (a debt) clear and certain.
- 15 Ga. Rep. 821
- A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount due is agreed on by the parties, or fixed by the operation of law.
- Chesterfield
- If our epistolary accounts were fairly liquidated, I believe you would be brought in considerably debtor.
- 15 Ga. Rep. 821
- (transitive) To do away with.
- (transitive) To kill.
- (obsolete, transitive) To make clear and intelligible.
- A. Hamilton
- Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system.
- A. Hamilton
- (obsolete, transitive) To make liquid.
Synonyms
- (to settle the affairs): conclude
- (to kill): Thesaurus:kill
Derived terms
Translations
to settle a debt
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to settle the affairs
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to convert assets into cash
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to kill someone
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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lik.wiˈda.te/
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