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adj
Of an amount of money: ascertained, determined, fixed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, not-comparable, obsolete, rare
Topics: law
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Synonym of liquefy (“to make (something) into a liquid”); to liquidize.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, rare, transitive
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Synonyms: liquefy
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To make (a sound) less harsh.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To use up (money or other assets) wastefully; to dissipate, to squander, to waste.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To kill (someone), usually violently, and especially for some ideological or political aim; to assassinate, to murder; also, to abolish or eliminate (something); to do away with, to put an end to.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, informal, transitive
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Synonyms: annihilate, bag, baptize, bereave of life, blight, bring down, bump off, bury, cack, compromised to a permanent end, croak, crush, dash, deactivate, dead, demolish, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, dust, eliminate, end, eradicate, ex, exterminate, finish, finish off, flatten, grease, knock off, lay waste to, make away with, merc, mortify, neutralize, obliterate, off, pay off, pick off, polish off, pop off, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put someone out of their misery, put six feet under, put to sleep, ravage, rub out, ruin, scotch, scupper, scuttle, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, shut up, slay, slaughter, slime out, smash, smite, snuff, squash, stiff, stop someone's clock, take, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, top off, top, torpedo, take care of, take down, take out, waste, wax, wet, whack, wipe out, wreck, stamp out, aerosolize, atomize, benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto, decompose, desolate, devastate, diffuse, disintegrate, disperse, dissolve, erase, extinguish, extirpate, fordo, fuck, harry, jazz, lay waste, level, liquidate, nuke, overthrow, overturn, pull down, pulverize, race, raze, ravel, remove, ruinate, total, subvert, unbreed, unexist, unmake, uproot, wipe off
Antonyms: bring forth, cause, contrive, create, ferment, forge, develop, engender, evolve, generate, gin up, innate, form, forthbring, make, produce, spawn
verb
To convert (assets) into cash; to encash, to realize, to redeem.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, transitive
Topics: business, commerce, commercial, finance, law
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount; to pay off.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, transitive
Topics: business, commerce, commercial, finance, law
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To settle the financial affairs of (a corporation, partnership, or other business) with the aim of ceasing operations, by determining liabilities, using assets to pay debts, and apportioning the remaining assets if any; to wind up.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, transitive
Topics: business, commerce, commercial, finance, law
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To make (something) clear and intelligible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To make (something) clear and intelligible.
To resolve or settle (differences, disputes, etc.).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To make (something) clear and intelligible.
To ascertain (an amount of money), especially by agreement or through litigation; also, to set out (financial accounts) properly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
Topics: law
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Of a corporation, partnership, or other business: to settle financial affairs with the aim of ceasing operations; to go into liquidation, to wind up.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: business, commerce, commercial, finance, law
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: neutralize, neutralise, waste, knock off, do in
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: kill
verb
settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: settle
verb
convert into cash
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cash, cash in
verb
eliminate by paying off (debts)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: pay off
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pay up, ante up, pay
Narrower terms: lift, amortize, amortise
History
Learned borrowing from Late Latin liquidātus (“liquid; clear”, adjective) + English -ate (suffix forming verbs, and forming adjectives with the sense ‘characterized by [the specified things]’). Liquidātus is the perfect passive participle of liquidō (“to turn into a liquid, melt; to make clear”), from Latin liquidus (“fluid, liquid; clear, transparent”) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs); while liquidus is from liqueō (“to be fluid or liquid; to be clear or transparent”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wleykw- (“to make wet; moist”)) + -idus (suffix meaning ‘tending to’ forming adjectives). By surface analysis, liquid (adjective) + -ate. Verb sense 1.2.3 (“to kill; to abolish or eliminate”) is a semantic loan from Russian ликвиди́ровать (likvidírovatʹ); while verb sense 1.2.4 and verb sense 2 (business-related senses) were influenced by French liquider and Italian liquidare, all ultimately from Latin liquidus (see above).
Across languages
59 source translations are retained for this English entry.
