different between liquidate vs ravage

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?kw?de?t/, /?l?kw?de?t/

Etymology

From Medieval Latin liquidatus (“liquid, clear”), past participle of liquidare. The sense “to kill, do away with” is a semantic loan from Russian ?????????????? (likvidírovat?), ultimately from Latin liquidus.

Verb

liquidate (third-person singular simple present liquidates, present participle liquidating, simple past and past participle liquidated)

1. (transitive) To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.
   • 1779, William Coxe, Sketches of the Natural, Political and Civil State of Switzerland

     Friburg was ceded to Zurich by Sigismund to liquidate a debt of a thousand florins.

2. (transitive) To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts.
3. (transitive) To convert (assets) into cash; to redeem.
4. (law, transitive) To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); to make the amount of (a debt) clear and certain.
   • 1851,Hargroves v. Cooke, 15th Georgia Reports 321

     A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount due is agreed on by the parties, or fixed by the operation of law.

   • February 27, 1759, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, letter to his son (letter CXXVIII)

     If our epistolary accounts were fairly liquidated, I believe you would be brought in considerably debtor.

5. (transitive) To do away with.
6. (transitive) To kill.
7. (obsolete, transitive) To make clear and intelligible.
   • 1788, Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist No. LXXXII

     Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system.

8. (obsolete, transitive) To make liquid.

Synonyms

• (to settle the affairs): conclude
• (to kill): Thesaurus:kill

Derived terms

• liquidation
• liquidator

Related terms

• liquefy
• liquid
• liquidity
• liquidizer
• liquify
• liquor

Translations

Anagrams

• qualitied

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.kwi?da.te/

Verb

liquidate

1. second-person plural present indicative of liquidare
2. second-person plural imperative of liquidare
3. feminine plural of liquidato

English

Etymology

From French ravage (“ravage, havoc, spoil”), from ravir (“to bear away suddenly”), from Latin rapere (“to snatch, seize”), akin to Ancient Greek ?????? (harpáz?, “to seize”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æv?d?/

Verb

ravage (third-person singular simple present ravages, present participle ravaging, simple past and past participle ravaged)

1. (transitive) To devastate or destroy something.
2. (transitive) To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something.
3. (intransitive) To wreak destruction.

Related terms

• rapid

Translations

Noun

ravage (plural ravages)

1. Grievous damage or havoc.
2. Depredation or devastation

   the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time

Translations

Further reading

• ravage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ravage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ravage (“ravage, havoc, spoil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ra??va?.??/
• Hyphenation: ra?va?ge
• Rhymes: -a???

Noun

ravage f (plural ravages)

1. havoc, damage

Anagrams

• gevaar

French

Etymology

From ravine (“rush of water”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.va?/

Noun

ravage m (plural ravages)

1. singular of ravages
2. (archaic) The act of laying waste.

Verb

ravage

1. first-person singular present indicative of ravager
2. third-person singular present indicative of ravager
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ravager
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of ravager
5. second-person singular imperative of ravager

Further reading

• “ravage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• gavera