meaning of liquidate
1. 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.
2. In an extended sense: To ascertain the amount, or the several amounts, of , and apply assets toward the discharge of (an indebtedness).
3. To discharge; to pay off, as an indebtedness.
4. To make clear and intelligible.
5. To make liquid.
6. get rid of someone who may be a threat by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was
">neutralized"
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