BANKRUPT

bankrupt, belly-up

(adjective) financially ruined; “a bankrupt company”; “the company went belly-up”

bankrupt, insolvent

(noun) someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts

bankrupt, ruin, break, smash

(verb) reduce to bankruptcy; “My daughter’s fancy wedding is going to break me!”; “The slump in the financial markets smashed him”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

bankrupt (comparative more bankrupt, superlative most bankrupt)

In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay one's debts.

Having been legally declared insolvent.

Destitute of, or wholly lacking (something once possessed, or something one should possess).

Synonyms

• See also impoverished

Verb

bankrupt (third-person singular simple present bankrupts, present participle bankrupting, simple past and past participle bankrupted)

(transitive) To force into bankruptcy.

Noun

bankrupt (plural bankrupts)

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

(UK, legal, obsolete) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.

Source: Wiktionary

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Bank"rupt, n. Etym: [F. banqueroute, fr. It. bancarotta bankruptcy; banca bank (fr. OHG. banch, G. bank, bench) + rotta broken, fr. L. ruptus, p.p. of rumpere to break. At Florence, it is said, the bankrupt had his bench ( i.e., money table) broken. See 1st Bank, and Rupture, n.]

1. (Old Eng. Low)

Definition: A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors. Blackstone.

2. A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person. M

3. (Law)

Definition: A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities.

Note: In England, until the year 1861 none but a "trader" could be made a bankrupt; a non-trader failing to meet his liabilities being an "insolvent". But this distinction was abolished by the Bankruptcy Act of 1861. The laws of 1841 and 1867 of the United States relating to bankruptcy applied this designation bankrupt to others besides those engaged in trade.

Bank"rupt, a.

1. Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant.

2. Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury.

3. Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy.

4. Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess). "Bankrupt in gratitude." Sheridan. Bankrupt law, a law by which the property of a person who is unable or unwilling to pay his debts may be taken and distributed to his creditors, and by which a person who has made a full surrender of his property, and is free from fraud, may be discharged from the legal obligation of his debts. See Insolvent, a.

Bank"rupt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bankrupted; p. pr. & vb. n. Bankrupting.]

Definition: To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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