bankrupting Definition

bankrupt
noun

1. Someone who is legally recognized, by a court adjudication order, as not being able to pay their debts.
2. Someone whose character is completely lacking in a specified respect, or drained of a specified quality, etc.

Example: a moral bankrupt

adj

1. Not having money to pay one's debts; insolvent.

Thesaurus: insolvent, destitute, impoverished, penurious, broke (slang), out of business, wiped out (US slang), failed; Antonym: solvent, wealthy.
2. Exhausted of or lacking (some quality, etc).

Example: bankrupt of ideas
Thesaurus: barren, sterile, empty, vacant, destitute, exhausted; Antonym: fecund.

verb

bankrupted, bankrupt, bankrupting
1. To make someone bankrupt.

Derivative: bankruptcy
noun

A state of being bankrupt.
Thesaurus: failure, ruin, insolvency, liquidation, indebtedness, defaulting, chapter 11 (US); Antonym: prosperity.

Etymology: 16c: from French banqueroute, altered under the influence of Latin banca rupta bank broken.