liquidate
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1 pay or settle (a debt) 清偿或结算(债务).
2 close down (a business) and divide up the proceeds to pay its debts 清算(公司)(清理资产以偿还债务).
3 get rid of (sb), esp by killing 清除(某人)(尤指杀掉)
liquidated his political opponents 肃清政敌.
Considering how recent these developments are, it is even more remarkable that as long ago as the 1960s, an Englishman, Leon Bagrit, was able to predict some of the uses of computers which we know today.