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

1. transitive 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.
2. transitive verb. In an extended sense: To ascertain the amount, or the several amounts, of , and apply assets toward the discharge of (an indebtedness).
3. transitive verb. To discharge; to pay off, as an indebtedness.
4. transitive verb. To make clear and intelligible.
5. transitive verb. To make liquid.
6. verb. get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing

   "The mafia liquidated the informer"

   "the double agent was neutralized"

   Synonyms: neutralise, neutralize, waste

7. verb. settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off

   "liquidate a company"

8. verb. convert into cash

   "I had to liquidate my holdings to pay off my ex-husband"

9. verb. eliminate by paying off (debts)

Synonyms

neutralise, neutralize, waste

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in liquidate:

qualitied

Common word forms

liquidated, liquidates, liquidating

Words from these letters

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