ante up vs liquidate

ante up and liquidate both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ante up	No	No	Yes	No
liquidate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, liquidate is a hyponym of ante up; that is, liquidate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than ante up:

Other hyponyms of ante up include pay off.

ante up (verb)	liquidate (verb)
cancel or discharge a debt	get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
	eliminate by paying off (debts)
	convert into cash
	settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off