different between liquify vs liquidate

English

Etymology

liquid +? -ify

Verb

liquify (third-person singular simple present liquifies, present participle liquifying, simple past and past participle liquified)

1. Alternative form of liquefy

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