Word Definition

Liquidate

  1. To make clear and intelligible.
  2. To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of (each indebtedness); to make the amount of (an indebtedness) clear and certain.
  3. To make liquid.
  4. To discharge; to pay off, as an indebtedness.
  5. In an extended sense: To ascertain the amount, or the several amounts, of , and apply assets toward the discharge of (an indebtedness).