LIQUIDATE
liquidate
Verb
- To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.
- To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts.
- To convert (assets) into cash.
- To do away with.
- To kill.
- To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); to make the amount of (a debt) clear and certain.
- To make clear and intelligible.
- To make liquid.
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