Liquidate
v. t.- (Law) To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of (each indebtedness); to make the amount of (an indebtedness) clear and certain.
- In an extended sense: To ascertain the amount, or the several amounts, of, and apply assets toward the discharge of (an indebtedness).
- To discharge; to pay off or settle, as an indebtedness.
- To make clear and intelligible.
- To make liquid.
- To convert (assets) into cash.
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To kill; -- used mostly of governments or organizations killing their enemies;
as, Stalin .liquidated many of the Kulaks - To dissolve (an organization); to terminate (an activity). Liquidated damages (Law),
damages the amount of which is fixed or ascertained.

