Sample Sentences for
liquidate
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    They said they will liquidate the ghetto only if we do not come out.  (source)
    liquidate = completely eliminate
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    Then, in March 1943, the Nazis liquidated the entire ghetto.  (source)
    liquidated = eliminated
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    In the camp office sat written orders, drawn up by the commander and approved by central military authorities, for all captives to be "liquidated" on September 15.  (source)
    liquidated = killed
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    Upon meeting the lawyer, he found out that Goldman had died a year earlier and his estate liquidated.  (source)
    liquidated = convert into cash and dispersed
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    I had asked my father to sell everything, to liquidate everything, and to leave.†  (source)
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    No, they would return to finish off the ghetto entirely, a liquidation.†  (source)
    standard suffix: 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.
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    Consul Tienappel, an uncle of little Hans's late mother, acted as executor for the Castorp estate, putting the property up for sale, taking charge of liquidating the firm Castorp and Son, Imports and Exports, realizing from these transactions some four hundred thousand marks—Hans Castorp's inheritance, which the consul then invested in gilt-edged securities.†  (source)
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    The post-war months in France, and the lavish liquidations taking place under the aegis of American splendor, had affected Dick's outlook.†  (source)
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    Under the temporary pressure of pecuniary liabilities, contracted with a view to their immediate liquidation, but remaining unliquidated through a combination of circumstances, I have been under the necessity of assuming a garb from which my natural instincts recoil — I allude to spectacles — and possessing myself of a cognomen, to which I can establish no legitimate pretensions.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unliquidated means not and reverses the meaning of liquidated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    There needs only to be added the observation that history's greatest liquidator of Jews, the thick-witted Heinrich Himmler, was a chicken farmer.†  (source)
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    The company that had employed him before the war had been liquidated right after Pearl Harbor and there was no job for him to return to.  (source)
    liquidated = eliminated
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    Kill, eliminate, assassinate, liquidate—you choose the word.†  (source)
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    There could be no doubt that a new phase of its liquidation had begun.†  (source)
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