liquidate
Verbs
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(v) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- The mafia liquidated the informer
- the double agent was neutralized
- (v) eliminate by paying off (debts) pay off,
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(v) convert into cash
- I had to liquidate my holdings to pay off my ex-husband
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(v) settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off
- liquidate a company