Liquidate vs Destroy - What's the difference?
liquidate | destroy |
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.
To cause destruction.
To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
To put down or euthanize.
(colloquial) To defeat soundly.
(computing) To remove data.
In transitive terms the difference between liquidate and destroy
is that liquidate is to kill while destroy is to put down or euthanize.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.
Synonyms
* (to settle the affairs) conclude * (to kill)Anagrams
* ----destroy
English
Verb
To damage beyond use or repair.
- The earthquake destroyed several apartment complexes.
- ''Hooligans destroy unprovoked
- ''Smoking destroys the natural subtlety of the palate
- Destroying a rabid dog is required by law.
- The memory leak happened because we forgot to destroy the temporary lists.
