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"ref": "1779, William Coxe, Sketches of the Natural, Political and Civil State of Switzerland",
"text": "Friburg was ceded to Zurich by Sigismund to liquidate a debt of a thousand florins.",
"type": "quotation"
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"To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount."
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"(transitive) To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount."
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"sense": "to settle a debt",
"word": "изплащам"
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"sense": "to settle a debt",
"word": "liquidar"
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"sense": "to settle a debt",
"word": "maksaa pois"
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "to settle a debt",
"word": "liquider"
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"sense": "to settle a debt",
"word": "liquidieren"
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"roman": "ekkatharízo",
"sense": "to settle a debt",
"word": "εκκαθαρίζω"
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"roman": "seisan suru",
"sense": "to settle a debt",
"word": "清算する"
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"roman": "vypláčivatʹ",
"sense": "to settle a debt",
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"sense": "to settle a debt",
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"To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts."
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"(transitive) To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts."
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"word": "conclude"
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"roman": "ureždam",
"sense": "to settle the affairs",
"word": "уреждам"
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"sense": "to settle the affairs",
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"sense": "to settle the affairs",
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"roman": "kecchaku wo tsukeru",
"sense": "to settle the affairs",
"word": "決着を付ける"
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"alt": "дела́",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uregulírovatʹ",
"sense": "to settle the affairs",
"word": "урегули́ровать"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uláživatʹ",
"sense": "to settle the affairs",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "ула́живать"
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uláditʹ",
"sense": "to settle the affairs",
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"sense": "to settle the affairs",
"word": "likvidirati"
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"sense": "to settle the affairs",
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{
"ref": "2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 59",
"text": "Her only relative was a niece in Boston, who arranged for a local lawyer to liquidate Mrs. Garner’s property.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"To convert (assets) into cash; to redeem."
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"(transitive) To convert (assets) into cash; to redeem."
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "to convert assets into cash",
"word": "liquidar"
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"sense": "to convert assets into cash",
"word": "liquider"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "to convert assets into cash",
"word": "liquidieren"
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ekkatharízo",
"sense": "to convert assets into cash",
"word": "εκκαθαρίζω"
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"_dis1": "2 4 87 2 4 2 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "perevodítʹ v nalíčnyje",
"sense": "to convert assets into cash",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "переводи́ть в нали́чные"
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"_dis1": "2 4 87 2 4 2 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "perevestí v nalíčnyje",
"sense": "to convert assets into cash",
"tags": [
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"word": "перевести́ в нали́чные"
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"_dis1": "2 4 87 2 4 2 0 0",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to convert assets into cash",
"word": "likvidirati"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to convert assets into cash",
"word": "likvidera"
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"examples": [
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"ref": "1851, Hargroves v. Cooke, 15th Georgia Reports 321",
"text": "A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount due is agreed on by the parties, or fixed by the operation of law.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "February 27, 1759, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, letter to his son (letter CXXVIII)",
"text": "If our epistolary accounts were fairly liquidated, I believe you would be brought in considerably debtor."
}
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"To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); to make the amount of (a debt) clear and certain."
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"(law, transitive) To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); to make the amount of (a debt) clear and certain."
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 161",
"text": "How far progress has been made in liquidating the locomotive stock of the old companies may be judged from the shrinkage in their numbers, by some 50 per cent. at the end of 1931, to about 35 per cent. in 1938.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1976 April 17, Robert Davis, “Anngered”, in Gay Community News, page 5",
"text": "Ann assumes that homosexual thoughts and experiences are evil and, if possible, they should be liquidated from consciousness.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To do away with."
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"(transitive) To do away with."
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"to kill, destroy, eliminate (mostly for political or ideological reasons)"
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"roman": "likvidiram",
"sense": "to kill someone",
"word": "ликвидирам"
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "to kill someone",
"word": "liquidar"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to kill someone",
"word": "vylikvidovat"
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "to kill someone",
"word": "likvidere"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to kill someone",
"word": "likvidoida"
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"sense": "to kill someone",
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "to kill someone",
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "katharízo",
"sense": "to kill someone",
"word": "καθαρίζω"
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"roman": "kesu",
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"word": "消す"
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{
"_dis1": "10 6 0 0 21 64 0 0",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "massatsu suru",
"sense": "to kill someone",
"word": "抹殺する"
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to kill someone",
"word": "likwidować"
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to kill someone",
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"roman": "likvidírovatʹ",
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"tags": [
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"perfective"
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"imperfective",
"perfective"
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"word": "likvidirati"
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to kill someone",
"word": "liquidar"
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to kill someone",
"word": "likvidera"
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"roman": "likviduvaty",
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"word": "ліквідувати"
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"ref": "1788, Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist, number LXXXII",
"text": "Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system.",
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"To make clear and intelligible."
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"(obsolete, transitive) To make clear and intelligible."
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"(obsolete, transitive) To make liquid."
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"word": "maksaa pois"
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"sense": "to settle a debt",
"word": "清算する"
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"word": "消す"
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"word": "抹殺する"
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