Amortize

1. v. t. To clear off or extinguish, as a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund.
2. v. t. To make as if dead; to destroy.
3. v. t. To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See Mortmain.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.