bankrupt

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   financially ruined

   a bankrupt company

2. 2
   verb

   to reduce to financial ruin

   I bankrupt my opponents in Monopoly.

3. 3
   adj

   In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay outstanding debts or meet financial obligations; specifically, having been legally declared insolvent.

   a bankrupt merchant

4. 4
   adj

   Destitute of, or wholly lacking a good quality, value, etc. one should possess or once possessed.

   a morally bankrupt politician

5. 5
   verb

   To force into bankruptcy.

   The cost of the Mendip line had, however, bankrupted the S.D.R. [Somerset & Dorset Railway], and it was leased to the two larger companies for 999 years in 1875, and named the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway.

6. 6
   noun

   someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts

7. 7
   verb

   to get placed last in Tycoon with the bankruptcy rule

8. 8
   noun

   One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person; a bankruptee.

Etymology

Partial calque of Italian bancarotta (literally “a broken bench”), from banca (“bank”, literally “bench”) + rotta (“broken, rupted”), which refers to an out-of-business bank, having its bench physically broken, signifying that the working moneylender was insolvent.