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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized" [syn: neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Date: 1905 1. a. to bring about the defeat or destruction of <a businessman done in by greed>; also kill b. exhaust, wear out 2. cheat

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

To do someone in means to kill them. (INFORMAL) Whoever did him in removed a man who was brave as well as ruthless. = bump off PHRASAL VERB: V n P, also V P n (not pron)

Moby Thesaurus

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