The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Liquidate \Liq"ui*date\ (l[i^]k"w[i^]*d[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Liquidated (-d[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
Liquidating.] [LL. liquidatus, p. p. of liquidare to
liquidate, fr. L. liquidus liquid, clear. See Liquid.]
1. (Law) To determine by agreement or by litigation the
precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an
indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the
precise amount of (each indebtedness); to make the amount
of (an indebtedness) clear and certain.
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A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount
due is agreed on by the parties, or fixed by the
operation of law. --15 Ga. Rep.
321.
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If our epistolary accounts were fairly liquidated, I
believe you would be brought in considerable debtor.
--Chesterfield.
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2. In an extended sense: To ascertain the amount, or the
several amounts, of, and apply assets toward the discharge
of (an indebtedness). --Abbott.
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3. To discharge; to pay off or settle, as an indebtedness.
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Friburg was ceded to Zurich by Sigismund to
liquidate a debt of a thousand florins. --W. Coxe.
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4. To make clear and intelligible.
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Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of
a compound system. --A. Hamilton.
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5. To make liquid. [Obs.]
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6. To convert (assets) into cash.
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7. To kill; -- used mostly of governments or organizations
killing their enemies; as, Stalin liquidated many of the
Kulaks.
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8. To dissolve (an organization); to terminate (an activity).
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Liquidated damages (Law), damages the amount of which is
fixed or ascertained. --Abbott.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
30 Moby Thesaurus words for "liquidated":
acquitted, banned, barred, debarred, deported, discharged, ejected,
excluded, exiled, expelled, expended, hired, left out, not in it,
not included, paid, paid in full, postpaid, precluded, prepaid,
prohibited, purged, receipted, remitted, salaried, settled,
shut out, spent, tabooed, waged
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):
LIQUIDATED. That which is made clear, certain, and manifest; as, liquidated
damages, ascertained damages liquidated debt, an ascertained debt, as to
amount. A debt is liquidated when it is certain what is due, and how much is
due, cum certum est an et quantum debeatur; for although it may appear that
something is due, if it does not also appear how much is due, the debt is
not liquidated. An unliquidated claim is one which one of the parties to the
contract cannot alone render certain. 5 M. R. 11; 1 N. S. 130; 6 N S. 715; 6
N. S. 10, 13 L. R. 275; 7 L. R. 134, 599. Such a claim cannot be set off. 2
Dall. 237; S. C. 1 Yeates' R. 571; 10 Serg. & Rawle, 14; see Poth. Ob. n.
628; Dig. 50, 17, 24; Id. 42, 1, 64; Id. 1, 45, 112; Id. 46, 5, 11; Code, 7,
47. Dom. Lois Civ. l. 4, t. 2, s. 2, n. 2; Arg. Inst. 1. 4, c. 7; 7 Toull.
n. 369; 6 Duv. Dr. Civ. Fr. n. 304.