Money
Synonyms for liquidate
The synonym for liquidate recorded in this bank is divest, in the sense "to convert assets into cash, typically by selling them". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for liquidate
- divestverb, in the sense "to convert assets into cash, typically by selling them"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day liquidate is audited in a second meaning.
to convert assets into cash, typically by selling them
The failing firm had to liquidate its equipment just to pay the remaining staff.
The true synonym
divest
Same sentence, swapped: The failing firm had to divest its equipment just to pay the remaining staff.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for liquidate in the sentence quoted.
- insure
- mortgage
- refinance
Where liquidate turns up in the game
liquidate is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where liquidate is the trap
- incubateverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is nurture, in the sense "to develop (a plan or idea) gradually in a protected environment", so liquidate is there to be ruled out.
- payverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is compensate, in the sense "do or give something to somebody in return", and liquidate is on the board beside it.
Play liquidate
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so liquidate reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from money at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. liquidate carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.