liquidate

Universal Words verb 1 [V, VN] to close a business and sell everything it owns in order to pay debts 2 [VN] (finance) to sell sth in order to get money: to liquidate assets 3 [VN] (finance) to pay a debt 4 [VN] to destroy or remove sb/sth that causes problems: The government tried to liquidate the rebel movement and failed.