To do away with.
To settle (a debt) by paying the outstanding amount.
To settle the affairs of (a company), by using its assets to pay its debts.
To kill.
To convert (assets) into cash; to redeem.
To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); to make the amount of (a debt) clear and certain.
To take away from something else.
To burn out while accelerating and rapidly depart; to peel off, peel out.
To become separate through peeling.
To separate off from the main body; to move off to one side (as in troop movements on a parade ground or in an organized retreat, or columns in a procession).