Antonyms for bankrupting

Grammar : Verb

Spell : bangk-ruhpt, -ruhpt

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbæŋk rʌpt, -rəpt

Definition of bankrupting

Origin : 1560s, from Italian banca rotta, literally "a broken bench," from banca "moneylender's shop," literally "bench" (see bank (n.1)) + rotta "broken, defeated, interrupted" from (and remodeled on) Latin rupta, fem. past participle of rumpere "to break" (see rupture (n.)). "[S]o called from the habit of breaking the bench of bankrupts" [Klein]. Earlier in English as a noun, "bankrupt person" (1530s).

As in reduce : verb make less; decrease
As in ruin : verb devastate, destroy
As in impoverish : verb make poor
As in break : verb weaken, cause instability
As in pauperize : verb ruin
As in poop : verb exhaust
As in tire out : verb exhaust
As in deplete : verb consume, exhaust supply
As in deprive : verb keep or take away something wanted, needed
As in dismantle : verb take apart
As in divest : verb dispossess; take off
As in do in : verb destroy; exhaust
As in drain : verb remove liquid; remove supply
As in exhaust : verb tire or wear out
As in exhaust : verb consume, use up
As in go under : verb fail, submerge

Example sentences :

Some of them were bankrupting their own boodle-bag husbands.
Extract from : « We Can't Have Everything » by Rupert Hughes

I could not with any large degree of sincerity thank the "Alta" for bankrupting my lecture-raid.
Extract from : « Chapters from My Autobiography » by Mark Twain

The old palace of Ahab, built with bankrupting magnificence by that renegade king of Israel, had long since fallen to ruin.
Extract from : « A King of Tyre » by James M. Ludlow

But on the contrary, should he be found in the course of time, this wild extravagance would result in bankrupting her.
Extract from : « The Ordeal » by Charles Egbert Craddock

Synonyms for bankrupting

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