verb

• (transitive) To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.
• (transitive) To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts.
• (transitive) To convert (assets) into cash; to redeem.
• (law, transitive) To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); to make the amount of (a debt) clear and certain.
• (transitive) To do away with.
• (transitive) to kill, destroy, eliminate (mostly for political or ideological reasons)
• (obsolete, transitive) To make clear and intelligible.
• (obsolete, transitive) To make liquid.