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liquidated

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verb

past tense of liquidate
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as in paid
to give what is owed for used our lottery winnings to liquidate our debts

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Recent Examples of liquidated
Verb
And in the down-and-out category, Allbirds closed all of its stores and Francesca’s liquidated. — David Moin, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026 Late last week, the urgent selling in semiconductors and data-center equities and debt resembled the sort of forced-unwind rhythms from July, when a big upstart tech hedge fund was in the process of being all but liquidated. — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2026 In 2025, when three other SpaceX funds were liquidated, Meyer allegedly moved about $636,000 meant for investors into his personal account. — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026 The state of Delaware wrongly seized and liquidated his stock after the man didn’t log into his trading account for years. — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026 It can't be diversified, rebalanced or liquidated the way a portfolio can. — Matt Nichols, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 Two months later, it was liquidated into campaign cash at a value of $170,000, marking an almost $75,000 return. — Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2026 His shares were taken by Delaware and liquidated in 2008 without his knowledge. — Mark Lewyn, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for liquidated
Adjective
  • Not all pads are alike, but a footprint on the larger side involves five to ten acres of cleared, packed ground that serves as the hub for drilling equipment, which can include wellheads, pump jacks, tanks, wastewater storage pits, trailers, and flare stacks.
    — Alex Heard, Outside, 4 Mar. 2026
  • What counts as a cleared sidewalk?
    — Quinn Clark, jsonline.com, 1 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • His presence in government should be eradicated like a malignant tumor.
    — Emily Feng, NPR, 6 Nov. 2026
  • The islands lost 9% to 20% of the total Key Deer population, but the New World screwworm was declared eradicated there on March 23, 2017, less than a year after it was discovered.
    — Eric Michel, The Conversation, 6 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Kerr is a longtime Democrat whose father Malcolm was assassinated by religious extremists in 1984 while the elder Kerr served as the president of the American University of Beirut in Lebanon.
    — Liam Russell, Sacbee.com, 13 Nov. 2026
  • Currently, a majority of the country’s capital is controlled by gangs after the president was assassinated in 2021.
    — Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 10 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Of course, nobody would have to pay that directly, but it would all be paid for by future debt on the backs of our children.
    — NBC news, NBC news, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Michael paid for a thirty-day treatment at a top facility in Florida.
    — New Yorker, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Burns joined the twenty-seventh annual New Yorker Festival to discuss his work with Michael Luo, an executive editor at the magazine, and the importance of chronicling history at a time when more and more is being written over and erased.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Playing its first game since firing coach Mike Norvell after six-plus seasons, Florida State erased a 17-7 second-quarter deficit by putting up two TDs in the final six minutes of the half.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Detectives from the start suspected Panetti had been murdered.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 2 Nov. 2026
  • It was consecrated by James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, young Black and Jewish men murdered together in 1964 for their work to register Black voters.
    — Seth Limmer, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Eventually, Katniss is pardoned, and the Games are abolished.
    — Sophia Zhang, Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 Nov. 2026
  • In 2016, voters rejected Proposition 62, which would have abolished the death penalty, and did the same back in 2012 with Proposition 34.
    — Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 11 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • No one has been executed in the state since 2006 and California has the largest death row in the Western Hemisphere.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2026
  • In July, Florida executed two prisoners on the same day, the first double execution by a single state in nearly a decade.
    — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2026

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“Liquidated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/liquidated. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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