LIQUIDATES Synonyms: 139 Similar and Opposite Words

liquidates

verb

present tense third-person singular of liquidate

as in eradicates

to destroy all traces of a decisive act that liquidated all doubts and fears about his governing abilities

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as in assassinates

to put to death deliberately his first act as absolute ruler was to liquidate his opponents

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as in pays

to give what is owed for used our lottery winnings to liquidate our debts

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Recent Examples of liquidates As out-of-business Spirit Airlines liquidates, the planes and the landing rights aren’t the only leftovers for sale. — Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026 Chaminade’s collective physicality with defensive tackle Kingston Williams, Hudson Manning, and Elijah Williams liquidates the inexperience of Oaks Christian. — Ethan Hanson, Daily News, 20 Aug. 2026 When the fund liquidates, the dividend dwelling is gone. — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026 What happens to Spirit's assets like plane fleets and airline gates if the airline liquidates? — Kelly McCarthy, ABC News, 16 Apr. 2026 The company filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which liquidates a company by selling off its property to repay creditors. — Corina Vanek, AZCentral.com, 8 Nov. 2025

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But that also eradicates a crucial option - to mount a show trial and scapegoat him for all the ills of his rule, thus absolving others.

— Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
Treating the underlying condition eradicates the need for drug treatments that act globally.

— Dr. Patricia Richard, Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2026

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That assassinates Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, sparking retaliatory attacks by Iran across the Middle East.

— Jill Lawrence, Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2026
Soleimani assassination | Trump orders a drone strike in Iraq that assassinates Qasem Soleimani, an influential Iranian military commander.

— Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 1 Mar. 2026

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So instead of making teams whole each time, the NFL now just pays teams’ travel expenses for their international game under the rationale that every team will lose a home game—and, in turn, home game ticket revenue—during that time.

— Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 2026
The result is a politics in which almost everyone agrees that reform is urgently needed, provided someone else pays, and their own group’s advantages remain untouched.

— Nicholas Bequelin, Time, 16 Oct. 2026

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Researchers at the University of California San Diego have demonstrated a way to control how an experimental electronic device forms and erases memory, using electrical currents to change the behavior of a material called vanadium dioxide.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2026
Continue reading … OPINION ELI STEELE — NYC ICE shooting exposes how White Guilt erases personal responsibility.

— , FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026

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Once your wager settles, BetMGM will credit your account with up to $1500 (matching your original wager) in Bonus Bets if your first bet loses.

— OutKick, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026
As the heat settles in, fire crews are remaining on high alert, particularly as vegetation becomes increasingly dry this late in the year.

— Brady Halbleib, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026

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The Schengen Area is an agreement between 29 European countries that abolishes passport controls and allows people to travel across European borders without providing documents.

— Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Attorney Monica Restanio, whose arguments in court for the Venezuelan family were responsible for winning the ruling that abolishes the minor issue, said she was thrilled.

— Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 29 July 2026

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TensorFlow Lite, a Google software tool, executes movements, including walking and recovery, using data from the phone’s internal sensors a few times per second.

— muskanbhatia, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026
Teams built one system that both decides what to do and executes it.

— Alex Salazar, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026

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