Liquidate

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To make liquid.

II. Liquidate ·vt To make clear and intelligible.

III. Liquidate ·vt To Discharge; to pay off, as an Indebtedness.

IV. Liquidate ·vt In an extended sense: To ascertain the amount, or the several amounts, of , and apply assets toward the discharge of (an indebtedness).

V. Liquidate ·vt 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.