liquidate

liquidate
v
1. pay in full, pay off, discharge, settle, retire; square, clear, honor, satisfy, Finance. amortize; redeem, redeem one's pledge or pledges, make good, Inf. pay up, Inf. pay the piper.
2. cash, convert, convert to cash, sell off, Inf. get out, Inf. clear the decks, Inf. cash in one's chips, Inf. cash out, Inf. take the money and run; sell stock, throw on the market, dump, unload, close out, sell out, terminate.
3.(of a partnership or business) break up, part company, split up, disband, go separate ways; abolish, dissolve.
4. kill, slay, assassinate, poison, do to death, blot or wipe out, put an end to, get rid of, put away, put out of the way, silence; dispatch, finish, finish off, settle, Inf. put the kibosh on; All Sl. hit, zap, snuff out, rub out, bump off, polish off, give [s.o.] the works or the business; All Euph. let the daylight in, send west, take for a ride, put [s.o.] out of his misery.
5. cut down, run through, put to the sword; smother, suffocate, asphyxiate, burke; execute, put to death, garrotte, behead, decapitate, guillotine, hang, gibbet, lynch, Sl. string up.
6. annihilate, exterminate, obliterate, discreate, reduce to nothing, destroy totally, eradicate, erase, extirpate, extinguish; massacre, decimate, destroy, wipe off the face of the earth.

A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.

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