1. Settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off
   "liquidate a company"
    
2. Convert into cash
   "I had to liquidate my holdings to pay off my ex-husband"
    
3. Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
   "The mafia liquidated the informer";
   - neutralize, neutralise [Brit], waste [informal], knock off [informal], do in [informal], clip [informal], whack [informal], take out [informal]
    
4. Settle or discharge (a debt, loan, or financial obligation) completely
   "They liquidated their mortgage early";
   - redeem, pay off

Derived forms: liquidated, liquidates, liquidating

See also: bump off [informal], croak [informal], despatch [Brit], dispatch, murder, off [N. Amer, informal], polish off [informal], slay [literary]

Type of: ante up, cash, cash in, kill, pay, pay up, settle

Encyclopedia: Liquidate