liquidate

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪkwədeɪt/, /ˈlɪkwɪdeɪt/

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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.

liquidate (third-person singular simple present liquidates, present participle liquidating, simple past and past participle liquidated)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts.
3. (transitive) To convert (assets) into cash; to redeem.
4. (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.

5. (transitive) To do away with.
6. (transitive) To kill.
7. (obsolete, transitive) To make clear and intelligible.
   • A. Hamilton

     Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system.

8. (obsolete, transitive) To make liquid.

• (to settle the affairs): conclude
• (to kill): Thesaurus:kill

• liquidation
• liquidator

• liquefy
• liquid
• liquidity
• liquidizer
• liquify
• liquor

• qualitied

• IPA^(key): /lik.wiˈda.te/

liquidate

1. second-person plural present indicative of liquidare
2. second-person plural imperative of liquidare
3. feminine plural of liquidato