liquidate
verb (used with object)
to settle or pay (a debt).
had been liquidating
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past perfect progressiveof liquidate.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
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It developed that the holders of warehouse stock had been liquidating it each time the market rose.
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