Synonyms for liquidate
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Verb
1. Wipe out — to kill (someone), usually violently, and especially for some ideological or political aim; to assassinate…
do in, wipe out, dispose of, destroy, eliminate, pay, slay, remove, annihilate, settle, kill, dissolve, make away with, exterminate, uproot, quit, neutralize, neutralise UK, clear off, extinguish, finish off, put to sleep, eradicate
Definitions
- v. 1
To kill (someone), usually violently, and especially for some ideological or political aim; to assassinate, to murder; also, to abolish or eliminate (something); to do away with, to put an end to.
Related words
- Word family
- liquidator liquefy liquid liquidation liquidity liquidizer liquor
Forms
- Past participle
- liquidated
e.g. liquidated → destroyed, eliminated, payed, slain…
Example sentences
- destroy Do you really think it will destroy my reputation?
- eliminate Algeria needs to eliminate its endemic corruption.
- repay I only wish there was some way I could repay you.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| liquidate | falling | |
| destroy | steady | |
| eliminate | falling | |
| repay | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- pay1
- 4 letters
- kill1, quit1, slay1
- 5 letters
- repay2
- 6 letters
- remove2, settle2, uproot2
- 7 letters
- destroy2, liquefy3
- 8 letters
- dissolve2
- 9 letters
- eliminate4, eradicate4
- 10 letters
- neutralize3, extinguish3, annihilate4, neutralise
- 11 letters
- exterminate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (repay2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- liquider
- Italiano
- liquidare
- Deutsch
- liquidieren