liquidate
verbEtymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin liquidātus (“liquid; clear”, adjective) + English -ate (suffix forming verbs, and forming adjectives with the sense ‘characterized by [the specified things]’). Liquidātus is the perfect passive participle of liquidō (“to turn into a liquid, melt; to make clear”), from Latin liquidus (“fluid, liquid; clear, transparent”) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs); while liquidus is from liqueō (“to be fluid or liquid; to be clear or transparent”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- (“to make wet; moist”)) + -idus (suffix meaning ‘tending to’ forming adjectives). By surface analysis, liquid (adjective) + -ate. Verb sense 1.2.3 (“to kill; to abolish or eliminate”) is a semantic loan from Russian ликвиди́ровать (likvidírovatʹ); while verb sense 1.2.4 and verb sense 2 (business-related senses) were influenced by French liquider and Italian liquidare, all ultimately from Latin liquidus (see above).
- derived from liquidus
Definitions
Synonym of liquefy (“to make (something) into a liquid”)
Synonym of liquefy (“to make (something) into a liquid”); to liquidize.
To make (a sound) less harsh.
To use up (money or other assets) wastefully
To use up (money or other assets) wastefully; to dissipate, to squander, to waste.
- A Drunkard is a Creature God ne're made, / The Species Man, the Nature retrograde, / […] / Thoſe damn themſelves to heap an ill-got Store, / Theſe liquidate their VVealth, and covet to be poor.
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To kill (someone), usually violently, and especially for some ideological or political aim
To kill (someone), usually violently, and especially for some ideological or political aim; to assassinate, to murder; also, to abolish or eliminate (something); to do away with, to put an end to.
- The process which, if not checked, will abolish Man, goes on apace among Communists and Democrats no less than among Fascists. […] Once we killed bad men: now we liquidate unsocial elements.
To convert (assets) into cash
To convert (assets) into cash; to encash, to realize, to redeem.
- How far progress has been made in liquidating the locomotive stock of the old companies may be judged from the shrinkage in their numbers, by some 50 per cent. at the end of 1931, to about 35 per cent. in 1938.
- Her only relative was a niece in Boston, who arranged for a local lawyer to liquidate Mrs. Garner’s property.
To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount
To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount; to pay off.
To settle the financial affairs of (a corporation, partnership, or other business) with…
To settle the financial affairs of (a corporation, partnership, or other business) with the aim of ceasing operations, by determining liabilities, using assets to pay debts, and apportioning the remaining assets if any; to wind up.
To make (something) clear and intelligible.
- The beſt ideas vve can obtain of ſuch pains and pleaſures are altogether unliquidated in point of quality. In vvhat other reſpects our ideas of them may be liquidated vvill be conſidered in another place.
Of a corporation, partnership, or other business
Of a corporation, partnership, or other business: to settle financial affairs with the aim of ceasing operations; to go into liquidation, to wind up.
- COVID-19 hit the company hard—I foresee it will liquidate within a year.
Of an amount of money
Of an amount of money: ascertained, determined, fixed.
The neighborhood
- neighborilliquid
- neighborilliquidity
- neighborilliquidly
- neighborliquefy
- neighborliquify
- neighborliquid
- neighborliquidation
- neighborliquidity
- neighborliquidizer
- neighborliquor
- neighbornonliquidation
- neighborpreliquidation
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA