Dictionary Entry
liquidate
liquidate is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 21 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
In an extended sense: To ascertain the amount, or the several amounts, of , and apply assets toward the discharge of (an indebtedness).
- 3transitive verb
To discharge; to pay off, as an indebtedness.
- 4transitive verb
To make clear and intelligible.
- 5transitive verb
To make liquid.
- 6verb
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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- 7verb
settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off
"liquidate a company"
- 8verb
convert into cash
"I had to liquidate my holdings to pay off my ex-husband"
- 9verb
eliminate by paying off (debts)
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