liquidate

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

• The Para rubber is of very fine quality, […] whilst the Ceara, a very inferior quality, often passes through a species of decomposition before arriving in this country, the heat of the ship's hold being sufficient to partially liquidate its

To make (a sound) less harsh.figurativelytransitive

To use up (money or other assets) wastefully; to dissipate, to squander, to waste.figurativelytransitive

• 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.

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.figurativelyinformaltransitive

• 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.

To convert (assets) into cash; to encash, to realize, to redeem.figurativelytransitive

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

To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount; to pay off.figurativelytransitive

• The excess of the former amount over the latter constitutes of course a debt due by this Company to the banking company, the settlement of which has engaged the earnest attention of the Board. Their wish was to liquidate that amount by the
• Defence could not be merely passive: assistance must be given to Mülhausen to liquidate outstanding debts, while Sigismund [Archduke of Austria] was open to receive offers, within the limits of the treaty of St. Omer, to redeem some or all

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.figurativelytransitive

To make (something) clear and intelligible.obsoletetransitive

• The beſt ideas vve can obtain of ſuch pains and pleaſures are altogether unliquidated in point of quality. In vvhat other reſpects our ideas of them may be liquidated vvill be conſidered in another place.

To make (something) clear and intelligible.; To resolve or settle (differences, disputes, etc.).obsoletetransitive

• [R]eturn to thy maſter, and tell him, e'er vve liquidate our differences by the ſvvord, Manfred vvould hold ſome converſe vvith him.

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.obsoletetransitive

• In your laſt letter, of the 7th, you accuſe me, moſt unjuſtly, of being in arrears in my correſpondence; vvhereas, if our epiſtolary accounts vvere fairly liquidated, I believe you vvould be brought in conſiderably debtor.
• A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount due is agreed on by the parties, or fixed by the operation of law.

Of an amount of money: ascertained, determined, fixed.archaicnot-comparableobsolete

• I A. B. [here name and design the Granter] grant me to have instantly borrowed and received C. D. [here name and design the Creditor] the Sum of [insert the Sum] Sterling; which Sum I bind myself and my Heirs, Executors, and Representatives