bankrupt
adjective
[ ˈbaŋkrʌpt ]
• (of a person or organization) declared in law as unable to pay their debts.
• "his father went bankrupt and the family had to sell their home"
Similar:
insolvent,
bankrupted,
failed,
ruined,
wiped out,
gone under,
in debt,
owing money,
in the red,
in arrears,
in administration,
in receivership,
bust,
belly up,
gone to the wall,
on the rocks,
broke,
flat broke,
smashed,
skint,
stony broke,
cleaned out,
in Queer Street,
in Carey Street,
• completely lacking in a particular good quality.
• "their cause is morally bankrupt"
Similar:
completely lacking in,
without,
bereft of,
exhausted of,
devoid of,
empty of,
depleted of,
destitute of,
vacant of,
bare of,
denuded of,
deprived of,
in need of,
wanting,
minus,
sans,
Opposite:
teeming with,
bankrupt
noun
• a person judged by a court to be insolvent, whose property is taken and disposed of for the benefit of their creditors.
bankrupt
verb
• reduce (a person or organization) to bankruptcy.
• "the strike nearly bankrupted the union"
Similar:
ruin,
make bankrupt,
cause to go bankrupt,
make insolvent,
impoverish,
reduce to penury/destitution,
bring to ruin,
bring someone to their knees,
wipe out,
break,
cripple,
pauperize,
beggar,
Origin:
mid 16th century: from Italian banca rotta ‘broken bench’, from banca (see bank2) and rompere ‘to break’. The change in the ending was due to association with Latin rupt- ‘broken’.
