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English Dictionary: liquidate	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
liquidate v get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized" Synonym(s): neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in eliminate by paying off (debts) Synonym(s): liquidate, pay off convert into cash; "I had to liquidate my holdings to pay off my ex-husband" settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off; "liquidate a company"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Liquidate \Liq"uidate\ (l[icr]k"w[icr]d[amac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Liquidated} (-d[amac]`t[ecr]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Liquidating}.] [LL. liquidatus, p. p. of liquidare to liquidate, fr. L. liquidus liquid, clear. See {Liquid}.] 1. (Law) To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of (each indebtedness); to make the amount of (an indebtedness) clear and certain. A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount due is agreed on by the parties, or fixed by the operation of law. --15 Ga. Rep. 321. If our epistolary accounts were fairly liquidated, I believe you would be brought in considerable debtor. --Chesterfield. 2. In an extended sense: To ascertain the amount, or the several amounts, of, and apply assets toward the discharge of (an indebtedness). --Abbott. 3. To discharge; to pay off, as an indebtedness. Friburg was ceded to Zurich by Sigismund to liquidate a debt of a thousand florins. --W. Coxe. 4. To make clear and intelligible. Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system. --A. Hamilton. 5. To make liquid. [Obs.] {Liquidated damages} (Law), damages the amount of which is fixed or ascertained. --Abbott.