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Gone vs Liquidate - What's the difference?

gone | liquidate |

As verbs the difference between gone and liquidate

is that gone is while liquidate is to settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.

As an adjective gone

is away, having left.

As a preposition gone

is (british|informal) past, after, later than (a time).

gone

English

Alternative forms

* ywent (obsolete verb form)

Verb

(head)
  • Derived terms

    * goner

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Away, having left.
  • Are they gone already?
  • (figuratively) No longer part of the present situation.
  • Don't both trying to understand what Grandma says, she's gone .
    He won't be going out with us tonight. Now that he's engaged, he's gone .
    Have you seen their revenue numbers? They're gone .
  • No longer existing, having passed.
  • The days of my youth are gone .
  • Used up.
  • I'm afraid all the coffee's gone at the moment.
  • Dead.
  • (colloquial) Intoxicated to the point of being unaware of one's surroundings
  • Dude, look at Jack. He's completely gone .
  • (colloquial) Excellent; wonderful.
  • (archaic) Ago (used post-positionally).
  • * 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 491:
  • Six nights gone , your brother fell upon my uncle Stafford, encamped with his host at a village called Oxcross not three days ride from Casterly Rock.

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • (British, informal) Past, after, later than (a time).
  • You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.

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    liquidate

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.
  • * W. Coxe
  • Friburg was ceded to Zurich by Sigismund to liquidate a debt of a thousand florins.
  • 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
  • A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount due is agreed on by the parties, or fixed by the operation of law.
  • * Chesterfield
  • If our epistolary accounts were fairly liquidated , I believe you would be brought in considerably debtor.
  • (obsolete) To make clear and intelligible.
  • * A. Hamilton
  • Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system.
  • (obsolete) To make liquid.
  • Synonyms

    * (to settle the affairs) conclude * (to kill)

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