liquidate
verb
[ ˈlɪkwɪdeɪt ]
• wind up the affairs of (a business) by ascertaining liabilities and apportioning assets.
• "if the company was liquidated, there would be enough funds released to honour the debts"
• kill (someone), typically by violent means.
• "rivals and critics were liquidated in bloody purges"
Similar:
kill,
murder,
cause the death of,
take/end the life of,
do away with,
make away with,
assassinate,
do to death,
eliminate,
terminate,
dispatch,
finish off,
put to death,
execute,
slaughter,
butcher,
massacre,
wipe out,
destroy,
annihilate,
erase,
eradicate,
exterminate,
extirpate,
decimate,
mow down,
shoot down,
cut down,
cut to pieces,
put down,
put to sleep,
bump off,
polish off,
do in,
do for,
knock off,
top,
take out,
croak,
stiff,
blow away,
dispose of,
ice,
off,
rub out,
waste,
whack,
scrag,
smoke,
slay,
Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘set out (accounts) clearly’): from medieval Latin liquidat- ‘made clear’, from the verb liquidare, from Latin liquidus (see liquid). liquidate (sense 1) was influenced by Italian liquidare and French liquider, liquidate (sense 2) by Russian likvidirovatʹ .
