bank|rupt

bank|rupt
bank|rupt «BANGK ruhpt», adjective, verb, noun.
–adj.
1. unable to pay one's debts, especially when declared legally unable to do so: »

After his store burned, the shopkeeper was bankrupt.

SYNONYM(S): insolvent.
2. Figurative. at the end of one's resources; destitute: »

I find myself bankrupt of hope that the situation can be improved.

SYNONYM(S): impoverished.
3. Figurative. completely lacking in some respect: »

The joke was entirely bankrupt of humor.

SYNONYM(S): poor, deficient.
–v.t.
to make bankrupt: »

Foolish expenditures will bankrupt him.

SYNONYM(S): impoverish.
–n.
1. a) a person who is declared by a court of law to be unable to pay his debts and whose property is distributed as far as it will go among the people to whom he owes money. b) a person who is unable to pay his debts.
2. a person who is unable to satisfy just claims of any kind made upon him.
╂[< Middle French banqueroute < Italian banca rotta; banca bank, and rotta, feminine past participle of rompere to break < Latin rumpere]

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