Definitions:

1. convert into cash verb
   • I had to liquidate my holdings to pay off my exhusband
2. get rid of someone who may be a threat by killing verb
   • The mafia liquidated the informer
3. settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off verb
   • liquidate a company

Synonyms:

• pay off
• realise
• realize
• waste