Definition of "liquidate" []

• To pay off (a debt, a claim, or an obligation); settle. (verb-transitive)
• To settle the affairs of (a business firm, for example) by determining the liabilities and applying the assets to their discharge. (verb-transitive)
• To convert (assets) into cash. (verb-transitive)
• To put an end to; abolish. (verb-transitive)
• To put to death; kill. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Liquidate liquidate liquidate is not going to lead us to an equilibrium point, either."
• "They all agree, in fact, that the value of all property has gone down at least half, a loss, if the nation had to sell up -- which it has not, but has only to 'liquidate' -- of a sum greater than required to buy up all the slaves and set them free."
• "Israel minister vows to 'liquidate' Gaza's Hamas rulers A SENIOR minister has warned that Israel will "liquidate" the Islamist Hamas-run government in Gaza following deadly weekend clashes that killed two Israeli soldiers."