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liquidate: settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off; "liquidate a company"; convert into cash; "I had to liquidate my holdings to pay off my ex-husband"; eliminate by paying off (debts)

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bump off collapse

shake off collapse

defray collapse: bear the expenses of

scrag collapse: the lean end of a neck of veal; lean end of the neck

disenthrone collapse

uncrown collapse

dethrone collapse: remove a monarch from the throne; "If the King does not abdicate, he will have to be dethroned"

unsaddle collapse: remove the saddle from; "They unsaddled their mounts"

extirpate collapse: surgically remove (an organ)

lynch collapse: kill without legal sanction; "The blood-thirsty mob lynched the alleged killer of the child"

abolish collapse: do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"

fling off collapse

unseat collapse: dislodge from one's seat, as from a horse; remove from political office; "The Republicans are trying to unseat the liberal Democrat"

immolate collapse: offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction; "The Aztecs immolated human victims"; "immolate the valuables at the temple"

nip in the bud collapse

sell short collapse: underestimate the real value or ability of; "Don't sell your students short--they are just shy and don't show off their knowledge"; sell securities or commodities or foreign currency that is not actually owned by the seller, who hopes to cover (buy back) the sold items at a lower price and thus to earn a profit

disbar collapse: remove from the bar; expel from the practice of law by official action; "The corrupt lawyer was disbarred"

amortize collapse: liquidate gradually

clear away collapse

drum out collapse

exterminate collapse: kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe"

starve collapse: die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"; deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners"; deprive of a necessity and cause suffering; "he is starving her of love"; "The engine was starved of fuel"; be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!"

uproot collapse: pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"; destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"

kick upstairs collapse

unload collapse: take the load off (a container or vehicle); "unload the truck"; "offload the van"

chloroform collapse: a volatile liquid haloform (CHCl3); formerly used as an anesthetic; "chloroform was the first inhalation anesthetic"; anesthetize with chloroform; "Doctors used to put people under by chloroforming them"

sell out collapse: give information that compromises others; get rid of all one's merchandise

massacre collapse: kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"

elide collapse: leave or strike out; "This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant"

do away with collapse

give the gate collapse

oust collapse: remove from a position or office; "The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds"; remove and replace; "The word processor has ousted the typewriter"

rub out collapse

unfrock collapse

defrock collapse: divest of the frock; of church officials

throw over collapse

dispel collapse

slay collapse

pension off collapse: let go from employment with an attractive pension; "The director was pensioned off when he got senile"

weed out collapse: remove unwanted elements; "The company weeded out the incompetent people"; "The new law weeds out the old inequities"

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