Verb

• S: (v) neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in (get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing) "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly) "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) liquidate, pay off (eliminate by paying off (debts))
• S: (v) liquidate (convert into cash) "I had to liquidate my holdings to pay off my ex-husband"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• sentence frame
• Somebody ----s something
• S: (v) liquidate (settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off) "liquidate a company"