Synonyms:
bankrupt, belly-up(p)
Meaning: financially ruined; "a bankrupt company"; "the company went belly-up"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
bankrupt, insolvent
Meaning: someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
bankrupt, ruin, break, smash
Meaning: reduce to bankruptcy; "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him"
Usage examples
Was he going to bankrupt the whole business?
"We shall certainly bankrupt the paper with this sort of business policy."
Will you stay by the NEWS until it is bankrupt?" asked Norman with a strange smile.
"It comes to this, then," said Clark frankly, "you will bankrupt the paper in thirty days.
It wouldn't have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything.
When Horace was nearly ten years old, his father, who had speculated in a small way in lumber, became a bankrupt; his house and furniture were sold by the sheriff, and he was obliged to flee from the State to avoid arrest.
Years after this he wrote, "Through most of this time I was very poor, and for four years really bankrupt, though always paying my notes, and keeping my word, but living as poorly as possible. My embarrassments were sometimes dreadful; not that I feared destitution, but the fear of involving my friends in my misfortunes was very bitter....