liquidate

英 ['lɪkwɪdeɪt] 美 ['lɪkwɪdeɪt]

• v. 清算；清偿；消除

英英释义

Verb:

1. get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing;

   "The mafia liquidated the informer"
   "the double agent was neutralized"
   

2. eliminate by paying off (debts)

3. convert into cash;

   "I had to liquidate my holdings to pay off my ex-husband"
   

4. settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off;

   "liquidate a company"
   

例句

用作动词 (v.)

1. I had to liquidate my holdings to pay off my ex-husband.
   我必须清算我所有的财产，以便还清对前夫的欠款。
2. They have decided to liquidate the corporation by the end of the next month.
   他们已经决定在下月底之前对公司进行清算。
3. The court decided to help the company liquidate its chain debts.
   法院决定帮助企业清偿三角债。
4. We were forced to liquidate some of our assets to pay the debts.
   我们被迫变卖一些资产以偿还债务。
5. It is possible to liquidate their doubts.
   消除他们的疑虑是有可能的。
6. The government tried to liquidate the rebel movement but failed.
   政府试图肃清反叛运动，结果失败了。

经典引文

• Even before an extermination policy went into effect, the Gestapo had been liquidating unfit persons.

  出自： B. Bettelheim

• Do German communities still exist in Russia? I thought Stalin liquidated them..in the forties.

  出自： L. Deighton

近反义词

【近义词】

• murder 谋杀
• butcher 屠夫
• settle 解决
• clear up 打扫
• pay 支付
• discharge 排出
• honour 荣誉
• honor 荣誉
• shut down 关闭
• sell out 卖完
• sell off 廉价出售(存货)...
• bankrupt 破产的
• wind up 以...告终
• kill 杀死
• execute 执行
• eliminate 除去
• assassinate 暗杀，行刺
• exterminate 消灭
• waste 废物
• do in <口>使极度疲乏...
• knock off 停止做某事
• neutralise 中和(使 ... 中立...
• pay off 偿清(欠款等)...
• neutralize 使中立