All 6 Uses
liquidate
in
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
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- Stalin said so—" he smiled drily, "it is not fashionable to quote Stalin—but he said once 'Half a million liquidated is a statistic, and one man killed in a traffic accident is a national tragedy.'†
Chpt 13 *
- You see the argument—that the whole operation was mounted by British Intelligence in order to entice us—me, if you like—into liquidating the best man in the Abteilung.†
Chpt 18
- We cannot yet prove that Mundt's success in liquidating minor Western intelligence agents was the work of his imperialist masters betraying their own collaborators—those who were expendable—in order that Mundt's prestige should be enhanced.†
Chpt 20
- Liquidated him?†
Chpt 20
- One of several spies who were summarily liquidated by Comrade Mundt before they could be questioned.†
Chpt 20
- The youngish man at the table lifted his pencil, and looking at Fiedler with his hard, cold eyes wide open he asked, "Then why did Mundt liquidate Riemeck, if Riemeck was his agent?"†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(liquidate) To settle or dispose of something completely -- especially by selling assets or forcefully eliminating a person or thing
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)