Liquidate

  • 111discharge — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. dismiss, deselect, retire; expel, emit; shoot, fire; perform, do; settle, pay; unload; free, acquit. See liberation, conduct, payment, acquittal, completion, ejection, excretion, exemption. II… …

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  • 112eradicate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. abolish; blot out, erase, extirpate, exterminate, weed out, eliminate, uproot. See destruction, extraction. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. extirpate, exterminate, annihilate; see abolish , destroy 1 . See …

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  • 113obliterate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. efface, erase, expunge, cancel; rub, sponge, or scratch out, blot out, take out; dele, delete, strike out, wipe out, wash out; wipe away; deface, leave no trace. See destruction, oblivion,… …

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  • 114pay — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. compensate; discharge, pay off; render, offer; be profitable, yield [a profit], show a profit, be worthwhile. n. wages, salary; payment, compensation. See payment, success, offer. II (Roget s IV) n. 1 …

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  • 115rub out — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v., slang, murder, assassinate (see killing). II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To cancel] Syn. eradicate, erase, delete; see cancel 1 , eliminate 1 . 2. [*To kill] Syn. murder, slay, shoot; see kill 1 . III (Roget …

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  • 116satisfy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. content, set at ease; gratify, sate, appease; convince, assure; pay, liquidate, discharge; fulfill, meet; suffice, do, answer. See pleasure, belief, payment, sufficiency. Ant., dissatisfy,… …

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  • 117destroy — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To bring to nothing] Syn. ruin, demolish, exterminate, raze, annihilate, tear down, throw down, plunder, ransack, pillage, eradicate, do away with, overthrow, cause the downfall of, devastate, swallow up, butcher, extirpate …

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  • 118Price — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Price >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 price price amount cost expense prime cost charge figure Sgm: N 1 demand demand damage Sgm: N 1 fare fare hire …

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  • 119liquidation — 1570s, noun of action from L.L. liquidare (see LIQUIDATE (Cf. liquidate)); originally as a legal term in reference to assets; of inconvenient groups of persons, 1925 in communist writings …

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  • 120liquidator — 1825, agent noun in Latin form from LIQUIDATE (Cf. liquidate) …

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