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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.