liquidate

Other forms of liquidate

past tense

liquidated·

present participle

liquidating·

third person

liquidates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about liquidate

What does liquidate mean?

liquidate means "get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in liquidate?

liquidate has 3 syllables: liq-ui-date. The stress falls on "liq". In IPA it is /ˈlɪkwɪˌdeɪt/.

What is another word for liquidate?

Close synonyms include neutralize, neutralise, waste, knock off, do in. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is liquidate a common word?

liquidate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with liquidate?

14 words rhyme with liquidate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.