liquidate

Friburg was ceded to Zurich by Sigismund to liquidate a debt of a thousand florins.

Her only relative was a niece in Boston, who arranged for a local lawyer to liquidate Mrs. Garner’s property.

A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount due is agreed on by the parties, or fixed by the operation of law.

How far progress has been made in liquidating the locomotive stock of the old companies may be judged from the shrinkage in their numbers, by some 50 per cent. at the end of 1931, to about 35 per cent. in 1938.

Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system.