liquidate
To make less harshTo make (a sound) less harsh.
» Shareholders voted to liquidate the company's assets.
Meaning
11 senses(figuratively, transitive)To make (a sound) less harsh.
(figuratively, transitive)To use up (money or other assets) wastefully; to dissipate, to squander, to waste.
(figuratively, informal, transitive)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.
liquidieren
ликвиди́роватьlikvidírovatʹ
ліквідуватиlikviduvaty
(figuratively, transitive)To convert (assets) into cash; to encash, to realize, to redeem.
liquidieren
переводи́ть в нали́чныеperevodítʹ v nalíčnyje, перевести́ в нали́чныеperevestí v nalíčnyje
convert into cash
(figuratively, transitive)To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount; to pay off.
liquidieren
ликвиди́роватьlikvidírovatʹ, выпла́чиватьvypláčivatʹ, вы́платитьvýplatitʹ
settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off
(figuratively, transitive)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.
(intransitive)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.
liquidieren
ула́живатьuláživatʹ, ула́дитьuláditʹ, урегули́роватьuregulírovatʹ
(archaic, rare, transitive)Synonym of liquefy (“to make (something) into a liquid”); to liquidize.
(obsolete, transitive)To make (something) clear and intelligible.
To make (something) clear and intelligible.
(obsolete, transitive)To resolve or settle (differences, disputes, etc.).
(obsolete, transitive)To ascertain (an amount of money), especially by agreement or through litigation; also, to set out (financial accounts) properly.
Examples
7 sentencesShareholders voted to liquidate the company's assets.
Enemies of peace must be liquidated.
deDie Feinde des Friedens müssen vernichtet werden.
It was then I became occupied in liquidating members of the opposite sex.
They liquidated everything.
The store has been liquidated. It's closed for good.
Translations
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Origin
Learned borrowing from Late Latin liquidātus (“liquid; clear”, adjective) + English -ate (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.
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Forms
liquidates, liquidating, liquidated, liquidated| Base form | liquidate · to liquidate |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | liquidates |
| Present participle | liquidating |
| Past simple | liquidated |
| Past participle | liquidated |
regular · Lesson
Synonyms
128 synonyms- eliminate by paying off (debts):pay off
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing:neutralizeneutralisewasteknock offdo in
Antonyms
17 antonymsWord family
22 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle