Annihilate vs Liquidate - What's the difference?
annihilate | liquidate |
To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
(label) To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation.
(archaic) To treat as worthless, to vilify.
*, II.17:
To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.
* W. Coxe
To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts.
To convert (assets) into cash.
To do away with.
To kill.
(legal) To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); to make the amount of (a debt) clear and certain.
* 15 Ga. Rep. 821
* Chesterfield
(obsolete) To make clear and intelligible.
* A. Hamilton
(obsolete) To make liquid.
As verbs the difference between annihilate and liquidate
is that annihilate is to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate while liquidate is to settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.annihilate
English
Verb
(annihilat)- An atom bomb can annihilate a whole city.
- of all the opinions which Antiquity hath had of men in gross, those which I most willingly embrace, and whereon I take most hold, are such as most vilifie, condemne, and annihilate us.
Synonyms
* (to reduce to nothing) benothing, destroy, eradicate, extinguish * See alsoAntonyms
* (to reduce to nothing) create, generateExternal links
* * ----liquidate
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Friburg was ceded to Zurich by Sigismund to liquidate a debt of a thousand florins.
- A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount due is agreed on by the parties, or fixed by the operation of law.
- If our epistolary accounts were fairly liquidated , I believe you would be brought in considerably debtor.
- Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system.