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liquidating

verb

Meaning

  1. To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.
  2. To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts.
  3. To convert (assets) into cash; to redeem.
  4. To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); to make the amount of (a debt) clear and certain.
  5. To do away with.
  6. To kill.

Etymology / origin

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Related words

pay off(English)do in(English)waste(English)knock off(English)annihilating(English)assassinating(English)clean-up(English)cleaning(English)

Descendant words

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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