liquidate

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

verb

1. get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing (Freq. 2)
- The mafia liquidated the informer
- the double agent was neutralized
• Syn:
neutralize, neutralise, waste, knock off, do in
• Derivationally related forms:
liquidation, liquidator
• Hypernyms:
kill
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- They want to liquidate the prisoners
2. eliminate by paying off (debts)
• Syn:
pay off
• Derivationally related forms:
liquidation
• Hypernyms:
pay up, ante up, pay
• Hyponyms:
lift, amortize, amortise
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. convert into cash
- I had to liquidate my holdings to pay off my ex-husband
• Hypernyms:
cash, cash in
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
4. settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off
- liquidate a company
• Hypernyms:
settle
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  pay off, neutralize, neutralise, waste, knock off, do in