Liquidate

Quick meaning: Liquidate is a verb meaning Synonym of liquefy (“to make (something) into a liquid”); to liquidize.

Meaning

Synonym of liquefy (“to make (something) into a liquid”); to liquidize.

More Meanings

1. To make (a sound) less harsh.
2. To use up (money or other assets) wastefully; to dissipate, to squander, to waste.
3. To convert (assets) into cash; to encash, to realize, to redeem.
4. To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount; to pay off.
5. To make (something) clear and intelligible.
6. 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.
7. 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.

Example Sentences

Her only relative was a niece in Boston, who arranged for a local lawyer to liquidate Mrs. Garner’s property.

The process which, if not checked, will abolish Man, goes on apace among Communists and Democrats no less than among Fascists. […] Once we killed bad men: now we liquidate unsocial elements.

A Drunkard is a Creature God ne're made, / The Species Man, the Nature retrograde, / […] / Thoſe damn themſelves to heap an ill-got Store, / Theſe liquidate their VVealth, and covet to be poor.

How far progress has been made in liquidating the locomotive stock of the old companies may be judged from the shrinkage in their numbers, by some 50 per cent. at the end of 1931, to about 35 per cent. in 1938.

Word Forms

• liquidates
• liquidating
• liquidated

Synonyms for liquidate

Depending on context, synonyms include liquefy, annihilate, bag, baptize, blight, bump off.

Antonyms for liquidate

Common opposites include cause, contrive, create, develop, engender, evolve.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pay off, waste, knock off, pay, sell, reimburse.

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