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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : bangk-ruhpt, -ruhpt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbæŋk rʌpt, -rəpt



Definition of bankrupts

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 pauper : noun person who is poor
  • As in beggar : noun person in financial trouble
  • As in debtor : noun purchaser
  • As in have-not : noun pauper
  • As in moocher : noun beggar
  • As in ruination : noun ruin
  • As in failure : noun person who does not succeed
  • 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 :
  • Here have I found that which shames and bankrupts the Ideal!
  • Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • My last was about Basinghall Street, attorneys, and bankrupts.
  • Extract from : « Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay » by George Otto Trevelyan
  • Some bankrupts have paid their debts, like honest men, with them.
  • Extract from : « The Young Man's Guide » by William A. Alcott
  • I held, for some years, the office of commissioner of bankrupts, with about 60l.
  • Extract from : « The Works of William Cowper » by William Cowper
  • There were unfortunates who had to pay security debts for bankrupts.
  • Extract from : « Dixie After the War » by Myrta Lockett Avary
  • Ah, every moment adds a suitor hope To th' bankrupts in my heart.
  • Extract from : « The Mortal Gods and Other Plays » by Olive Tilford Dargan
  • Bankrupts, attorneys, and men of desperate fortunes are his colleagues.
  • Extract from : « The Loyalists of Massachusetts » by James H. Stark
  • So that little in the way of entertaining is to be expected from the bankrupts.
  • Extract from : « Worldly Ways and Byways » by Eliot Gregory
  • At least, the jolliest fellows I know are bankrupts, or no better.
  • Extract from : « In Kedar's Tents » by Henry Seton Merriman
  • If so, let them call for the Gazette, and look over the list of bankrupts.
  • Extract from : « The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 14, Issue 386, August 22, 1829 » by Various

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