Sample sentences for LIQUIDATE

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Definition

to convert into cash

I liquidated my holdings.

I had asked my father to sell out, liquidate his business, and leave.
Elie Wiesel -- Night

liquidate = to convert into cash

He buys unprofitable firms and liquidates them. Often he finds firms whose real estate is worth more than their cost.
I guess you could say that we had successfully "liquidated" the bomb.
D.J. Machale -- The Merchant of Death
Will Hodge Jr's trip to Chicago was a total waste: Kleppmann's man was just ahead of him, as usual, and had liquidated his stocks that very morning.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
It would be necessary to make inquiries, to look into mortgages, and see if there were any occasion for a sale by auction or a liquidation.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

Authors will be liquidated.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
Let me live onward; you shall find that, though slower, the progress of my character will liquidate all these debts without injustice to higher claims.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
There could be no doubt that a new phase of its liquidation had begun.
Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist

The liquidation of Austria.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain

Then, in March 1943, the Nazis liquidated the entire ghetto.
Leon Leyson -- The Boy on the Wooden Box
"True, it may be necessary, initially, to liquidate opponents of the revolution," Ludovico admitted.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
I made a fool of myself with him once tonight and I am perfectly willing to liquidate him.
Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
At one point Derwent boasted that he could liquidate completely and realize the price of a three-year-old Chevrolet.
Stephen King -- The Shining
While good citizens of Athens were being liquidated right and left, Socrates—so far as we know—did or said nothing to stop the violence.
Doug Linder -- The Trial of Socrates
There needs only to be added the observation that history's greatest liquidator of Jews, the thick-witted Heinrich Himmler, was a chicken farmer.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
Liquidated assets as it were.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
Although he was convinced at that time of the urgency of liquidating the Conservative regime, the plot horrified him.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude
A whole personality had been liquidated without a trace in a technologically faultless act that has defined our relationship ever since.
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The American Japanese were interned as we were in Canada, and sent off to concentration camps, but their property wasn't liquidated as ours was.
Joy Kogawa -- Obasan

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