· get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"
Synonym(s): neutralize, neutralise, waste, knock_off, do_in
Hypernym(s): kill
· eliminate by paying off (debts)
Synonym(s): pay_off
Hypernym(s): pay_up, ante_up, pay
· convert into cash; "I had to liquidate my holdings to pay off my ex-husband"
· settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off; "liquidate a company"
Hypernym(s): settle