ликвидировать — meaning in English

English meaning

• abolish verb To officially end a law, system, or practice.
• eliminate verb To completely remove or get rid of something.
• expunge verb To erase or strike out.
• kill verb To cause the death of a person, animal, or living thing.
• liquidate verb To convert assets into cash, often to pay off debts.

Senses

ликвидировать is used for these senses in English:

• abolish (archaic) To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out. [First attested from around 1350 to 1470.]
• eliminate (transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
• eliminate (transitive, slang) To kill (a person or animal).
• expunge (transitive) To eliminate completely; to annihilate.
• kill (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
• liquidate To settle the financial affairs of (a corporation, partnership, or other business) with the aim of ceasing operations, by determining liabilities, using assets to pay debts, and apportioning the remaining assets if any; to wind up.
• liquidate (informal) To kill (someone), usually violently, and especially for some ideological or political aim; to assassinate, to murder; also, to abolish or eliminate (something); to do away with, to put an end to.

eliminate — full definition

1. verb To completely remove or get rid of something.
2. verb To knock a competitor or option out of a contest or list of possibilities.

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