bankrupt

(băngk'rŭpt', -rəpt)
n.

1. Law. A debtor that, upon voluntary petition or one invoked by the debtor's creditors, is judged legally insolvent. The debtor's remaining property is then administered for the creditors or is distributed among them.
2. A person who is totally lacking in a specified resource or quality: an intellectual bankrupt.

adj.

1. 1. Having been legally declared financially insolvent.
   2. Financially ruined; impoverished.
2. 1. Depleted of valuable qualities or characteristics: a morally and ethically bankrupt politician.
   2. Totally depleted; destitute: was bankrupt of new ideas.
   3. Being in a ruined state: a bankrupt foreign policy.

tr.v., -rupt·ed, -rupt·ing, -rupts.

1. To cause to become financially bankrupt.
2. To ruin: an administration that bankrupted its credibility by seeking to manipulate the news.

[French banqueroute, from Italian banca rotta, broken counter (from the practice of breaking the counters of bankrupt bankers) : banca, moneychanger's table; see banco + rotta, past participle of rompere, to break (from Latin rumpere).]

bankruptcy bank'rupt·cy (-rəpt-sē, -rəp-sē) n.
bankruptive bank·rup'tive adj.

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verb

1. To reduce to financial insolvency: break, bust, impoverish, pauperize, ruin. Slang clean out. See money.
2. To cause the complete ruin or wreckage of: break down, cross up, demolish, destroy, finish, ruin, shatter, sink, smash, spoil, torpedo, undo, wash up, wrack, wreck. Slang total. Idioms: put the kibosh on. See help/harm/harmless.

adj

Definition: unable to pay debts
Antonyms: rich, solvent, wealthy

IN BRIEF: Unable to pay what one owes.

The new business went bankrupt after it tried and failed to sell the new product.

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - fallit, insolvent
n. - fallent, insolvent skyldner
v. tr. - gøre fallit, få til at gå fallit

idioms:

• go bankrupt    gå fallit, blive insolvent

Nederlands (Dutch)
failliet, waardeloos, beroofd, ruïneren, bankroetier

Français (French)
adj. - failli, ruiné, en faillite, (Jur) failli, fauché, (fig) dépourvu, dénué
n. - banqueroutier, failli
v. tr. - mettre en faillite, (fig) ruiner

idioms:

• go bankrupt    faire faillite

Deutsch (German)
adj. - bankrott, pleite
n. - Bankrotteur, Gemeinschuldner
v. - bankrott machen, (fig) arm machen

idioms:

• go bankrupt    in Konkurs gehen, Bankrott machen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - χρεοκοπημένος, μπατίρης
adj. - χρεοκοπημένος, φαλιρισμένος, αναξιόπιστος, αναποτελεσματικός

idioms:

• go bankrupt    χρεοκοπώ, κηρύσσω πτώχευση

Italiano (Italian)
bancarottiere, fallito

Português (Portuguese)
n. - pessoa (f) falida
adj. - falido

idioms:

• go bankrupt    ir à falência

Русский (Russian)
банкрот

idioms:

• go bankrupt    обанкротиться

Español (Spanish)
adj. - quebrado, en quiebra
n. - bancarrota
v. tr. - quebrar

idioms:

• go bankrupt    dar quiebra, ir a la quiebra

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - person som har gjort konkurs
adj. - bankrutt, konkursmässig, pank

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
破产了的, 完全丧失的, 破产者, 完全丧失者, 赤贫者, 使破产, 使枯竭, 使赤贫

idioms:

• go bankrupt    破产, 倒闭

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 破產了的, 完全喪失的
n. - 破產者, 完全喪失者, 赤貧者
v. tr. - 使破產, 使枯竭, 使赤貧

idioms:

• go bankrupt    破產, 倒閉

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 파산한, 파탄한
n. - 파산자, 성격 파탄자, 돈을 낼 수 없는 사람
v. tr. - ~을 파산시키다

idioms:

• go bankrupt    파산하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 破産者
adj. - 破産した, 欠いた
v. - 破産させる

idioms:

• go bankrupt    破産する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مفلس (صفه) إفلاسي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮פושט רגל, נעדר-, חסר-, נטול-‬
n. - ‮פושט רגל‬
v. tr. - ‮גרם לפשיטת רגל‬

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