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BANKRUPT

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English dictionary: Word overview

BANKRUPT (noun)
  The noun BANKRUPT has 1 sense:

1. someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts

  Familiarity information: BANKRUPT used as a noun is very rare.


BANKRUPT (adjective)
  The adjective BANKRUPT has 1 sense:

1. financially ruined

  Familiarity information: BANKRUPT used as an adjective is very rare.


BANKRUPT (verb)
  The verb BANKRUPT has 1 sense:

1. reduce to bankruptcy

  Familiarity information: BANKRUPT used as a verb is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


BANKRUPT (noun)


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Meaning:

Someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bankrupt; insolvent

Hypernyms ("bankrupt" is a kind of...):

failure; loser; nonstarter; unsuccessful person (a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently)


BANKRUPT (adjective)


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Meaning:

Financially ruined

Synonyms:

bankrupt; belly-up

Context examples:

a bankrupt company / the company went belly-up

Similar:

insolvent (unable to meet or discharge financial obligations)


BANKRUPT (verb)


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Meaning:

Reduce to bankruptcy

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

bankrupt; ruin; smash; break

Context examples:

My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me! / The slump in the financial markets smashed him

Hypernyms (to "bankrupt" is one way to...):

impoverish (make poor)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody


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