| Main Entry: | liquidate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pay; change into cash |
Synonyms: |
cash, cash in, cash out, clear, convert, discharge, exchange, honor, pay off, quit, realize, reimburse, repay, satisfy, sell off, sell up, settle, square |
Antonyms: |
invest, keep |
| Main Entry: | liquidate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy, dissolve |
Synonyms: |
abolish, annihilate, annul, cancel, dispatch, do away with, do in, eliminate, exterminate, finish off, get rid of*, kill, murder, purge, remove, rub out, silence, terminate, vaporize, wipe out |
Antonyms: |
build, construct, create |
| Main Entry: | annihilate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy completely |
Synonyms: |
abate, abolish, abrogate, annul, blot out, crush*, decimate, demolish, do in, eradicate, erase, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, finish off, invalidate, liquidate, massacre, murder, negate, nullify, obliterate, quash, quell, raze, root out, rub out, ruin, slaughter, take out*, undo, vitiate, wipe out, wrack, wreck |
Antonyms: |
help, preserve, revive, save |
| Main Entry: | assassinate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | murder prominent or important person |
Synonyms: |
bump off, do in, eliminate, execute, gun down, hit, kill, knock off, liquidate, slaughter, slay |
| Main Entry: | butcher |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | slay and prepare animal for meat |
Synonyms: |
beef up, carve, clean, cure, cut, cut down, dress, joint, liquidate, salt, slaughter, smoke, stick |
| Main Entry: | cash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | exchange for real money |
Synonyms: |
acknowledge, break a bill, change, discharge, draw, honor, liquidate, make change, pay, realize, redeem |
| Main Entry: | destroy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demolish, devastate |
Synonyms: |
abort, annihilate, annul, axe, blot out, break down, butcher, consume, cream*, crush, damage, deface, desolate, despoil, dismantle, dispatch, end, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, gut, impair, kill, lay waste, level, liquidate, maim, mar, maraud, mutilate, nuke, nullify, overturn, quash, quell, ravage, ravish, raze, ruin, sabotage, shatter, slay, smash, snuff out, spoliate, stamp out, suppress, swallow up, tear down, torpedo, total, trash*, vaporize, waste, wax, wipe out, wreck, zap |
Antonyms: |
build, construct, create, improve, repair, restore |
| Main Entry: | discharge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pay, settle debt |
Synonyms: |
clear, honor, liquidate, meet, pay up, quit, relieve, satisfy, square up |
Antonyms: |
owe |
| Main Entry: | do away with |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get rid of; destroy |
Synonyms: |
abolish, bump off, cancel, discard, discontinue, do in, eliminate, exterminate, finish, kill, liquidate, murder, put an end to, put to death, remove, slaughter, slay, take away, wipe out |
Antonyms: |
build, construct, get, keep |
| Main Entry: | do in |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy; exhaust |
Synonyms: |
assassinate, bankrupt, bump off, butcher, cool*, dilapidate, dispatch, do away with, eliminate, execute, fatigue, finish, frazzle, kill, knock out, liquidate, murder, put away, ruin, shatter, slaughter, slay, tire, wear out, weary, wreck |
Antonyms: |
bear, create, invent |