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What is the verb for liquid?

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liquidate
  1. (transitive) To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.
  2. (transitive) To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts.
  3. (transitive) To convert (assets) into cash; to redeem.
  4. (transitive) To do away with.
  5. (transitive) To kill.
  6. (law, transitive) To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); to make the amount of (a debt) clear and certain.
  7. (obsolete, transitive) To make clear and intelligible.
  8. (obsolete, transitive) To make liquid.
  9. Synonyms:
  10. Examples:
    1. “Farmers fared well before the war because foreign nations encouraged imports of our products to help liquidate our debts.”
      “The consumer operation will keep running for a few weeks to liquidate inventory.”
      “Would your heirs have sufficient funds to pay your estate taxes without being forced to liquidate the business?”
liquidize
  1. to make liquid
  2. (business, finance) to convert assets into liquid (cash) form; to liquidate
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Place one uncooked potato into a liquidizer and liquidize the whole potato.”
      “We can liquidize the natural gas immediately from the gas field and store it into steel tanks.”
      “So a few thousand people will finally liquidize their locked-up wealth, and the hoi polloi will at last be able to buy Facebook shares.”
liquesce
liquefy
  1. (transitive) To make into a liquid.
  2. (intransitive) To become liquid.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Another solution could be to liquefy the gas and pump it through existing oil pipelines.”
      “The soft metal gallium has such a low melting point that it will liquefy on contact with your hand.”
      “Dewar used liquid air to pre-cool compressed hydrogen, reducing its temperature enough to liquefy the gas by expansion.”
liquefied
liquidise
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of liquidize.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Remove the pan from the heat and liquidise the contents until smooth and creamy.”
      “Once at boiling point, lower to a simmer, cover and cook for about 25 minutes or until tender, then liquidise and check seasoning.”
      “Leave the peppers to cool, then liquidise them and season to taste.”
liquidated
liquified
liquify
  1. Alternative form of liquefy
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He designed to relieve the ear from the clash of supernumerary consonants, and to liquify by a vowelly confluence.”
      “They should be heated only sufficient to liquify them, or the acid of the jelly might curdle the blanc-mange.”
      “A synthetic design, it seems to liquify succeeding architectural epochs into an unbroken stream of memory.”
liquefying
  1. present participle of liquefy; alternative spelling of liquifying
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “An American company came up with the idea of exporting natural gas to Europe by liquefying it at very cold temperatures and shipping it.”
      “Otherwise, there were yielding green figs in winey, citrusy syrup, with a faultless vanilla ice-cream liquefying sensuously into it.”
      “Much energy will be spent making energy, such as electricity generation and the process of liquefying natural gas.”
liquidises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of liquidise
liquidates
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of liquidate
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Since its members will likely get next to nothing if it liquidates, the committee is now seen as an ally to the airline's bid for survival.”
      “Investors don't get their money out until the partnership liquidates or goes public, which typically doesn't happen for 10 to 15 years.”
      “This chart assumes that the investor holds his or her investment until he or she retires and liquidates it at that time.”
liquidizes
liquesces
liquefies
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of liquefy
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This approach liquefies the sludge, rendering a slurry that is readily de-gradeable within a conventional mesophilic anaerobic digester.”
      “It liquefies, emulsifies and breaks down the fatty substances that cause grease and bad smells.”
      “When it contains wheat flour, and is heated, it at first liquefies, but on cooling it becomes solid and tough.”
liquifies
liquidised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of liquidise
liquidized
liquesced
liquidating
  1. present participle of liquidate
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Investing in a company that is liquidating is playing in a high-risk arena that can be lucrative when done right.”
      “The Code will waive the requirement of a liquidating value appraisal so as to accelerate the close of bankruptcy procedure and asset realisation.”
      “They worried that some newspaper organizations essentially, if unwittingly, are liquidating their businesses.”
liquidising
  1. present participle of liquidise
liquidizing
liquescing
liquifying
  1. present participle of liquify
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The fining process involved liquifying cast iron in a fining hearth and removing carbon from the molten cast iron through oxidation.”
      “The first is liquifying gas in Qatar and then retransforming it to a gaseous state in Kuwait.”
      “The team succeeded in liquifying the DNA by combining negatively charged DNA crystals with positively charged molten metal complexes containing ethylene oxide tails.”
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