Antonyms for bankrupts
Grammar : Noun, verb |
Spell : bangk-ruhpt, -ruhpt |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbæŋk rʌpt, -rəpt |
- accomplish
- accomplishment
- achieve
- achievement
- achiever
- add
- adorn
- agree
- aid
- allow
- amplify
- animate
- appropriate
- approve
- assemble
- assist
- attach
- attainment
- augment
- bear
- beautify
- bestow
- build
- building
- cause
- clothe
- collect
- combine
- compliment
- confer
- construct
- cover
- create
- creation
- creditor
- cure
- decorate
- develop
- earnings
- elevate
- enable
- encourage
- endorse
- endow
- energize
- enhance
- enlarge
- enrich
- expand
- extend
- fasten
- fill
- fix
- gain
- garner
- gather
- give
- grow
- hard worker
- heal
- help
- hide
- hoard
- hold
- honor
- improve
- increase
- indulge
- inspirit
- invent
- invest
- invigorate
- join
- keep
- keep quiet
- laud
- lender
- lengthen
- let go
- lose
- maintain
- mend
- merit
- mortgagee
- obey
- offer
- ornament
- possess
- pour
- praise
- present
- preserve
- prolong
- promote
- protect
- prove
- put in
- put together
- raise
- refresh
- repair
- replenish
- restore
- rich
- rise
- sanctify
- save
- secret
- secure
- stabilize
- stay
- strengthen
- stretch
- succeed
- success
- supply
- support
- surrender
- take
- upgrade
- wait
- wealthy
- win
- yield
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
- 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
Synonyms for bankrupts
- abate
- abridge
- account
- alms person
- almsman
- almsperson
- almswoman
- also-ran
- annihilate
- assassinate
- bane
- bankrupt
- bant
- bare
- beat
- beggar
- bereave
- bleed
- bleed dry
- born loser
- borrower
- botch
- break
- break down
- break up
- bring down
- bring to ruin
- bum
- bump off
- burn out
- bust
- butcher
- cadger
- castaway
- catheterize
- cheapen
- chop
- clean out
- clip
- confound
- confute
- conk out
- consume
- contract
- controvert
- cool
- cow
- cripple
- crush
- curtail
- cut
- cut back
- cut down
- deadbeat
- debase
- debilitate
- decimate
- declass
- decrease
- deface
- default
- defaulter
- defeat
- defile
- deflate
- degrade
- demerit
- demolish
- demoralize
- demote
- denudate
- denude
- dependent
- deplete
- deplore
- depreciate
- depredate
- depress
- deprive
- derelict
- desecrate
- despoil
- destitute
- destroy
- destroyer
- destruction
- devitalize
- devour
- die
- diet
- dig into
- dilapidate
- dilute
- diminish
- disable
- disappointment
- disassemble
- disconfirm
- discount
- disfigure
- disinherit
- dismantle
- dismember
- dismount
- dispatch
- dispel
- disperse
- dispirit
- dispossess
- disprove
- disrobe
- dissipate
- ditch
- divert
- divest
- do away with
- do in
- dock
- doff
- down-and-out
- down-and-outer
- downfall
- downgrade
- draft
- drain
- draw
- draw off
- drink up
- drown
- dry
- dry up
- dud
- dump
- dwindle
- eat
- eat up
- eighty-six
- eliminate
- empty
- enervate
- enfeeble
- evacuate
- execute
- exhaust
- expend
- expropriate
- fag
- fall
- fatigue
- fell
- filter off
- finish
- fleece
- flop
- fold
- founder
- frazzle
- free from
- get last drop
- get rid of
- go down
- go on a diet
- good-for-nothing
- gulp down
- guttersnipe
- has-been
- have-not
- hold back
- homeless person
- humiliate
- impair
- impoverish
- in the gutter
- incapacitate
- incompetent
- indigent
- injure
- insolvent
- kill
- knock down
- knock out
- lay waste
- lazarus
- lessen
- level
- liquidate
- loafer
- lose
- lose weight
- loser
- lower
- lumpy
- maim
- make a mess of
- mangle
- mar
- mark down
- mendicant
- might-have-been
- milk
- moderate
- moocher
- mortgagor
- murder
- mutilate
- no-good
- nobody
- nonperformer
- nutshell
- oust
- overdo
- overexert
- overextend
- overfatigue
- overthrow
- overtire
- overturn
- overwhelm
- overwork
- pare
- part out
- pauper
- pauperize
- peter out
- pillage
- plunder
- poop
- poop out
- poor person
- poverty-stricken person
- prodigal
- prostrate
- pull down
- pump
- pump out
- put away
- quaff
- rape
- ravish
- raze
- rebate
- rebut
- recede
- reduce
- refute
- remove
- risk
- rob
- roll back
- ruin
- run out
- run ragged
- run through
- sack
- sap
- scale down
- seize
- shatter
- shave
- shorten
- sink
- siphon
- skim
- slash
- slaughter
- slay
- slim
- slow down
- smash
- spend
- spoil
- spoilate
- squander
- step down
- stiff
- strain
- street person
- strike
- strip
- subdue
- submerse
- submit
- subvert
- succumb
- suck
- suck dry
- suffocate
- suppliant
- supplicant
- surrender
- swallow
- take down
- take from
- take it out of
- take last of
- take off weight
- take to pieces
- tame
- tap
- taper
- taper off
- tax
- tear down
- tire
- tire out
- tone down
- total
- trim
- truncate
- tucker
- turkey
- turn down
- unclothe
- uncover
- underachiever
- undermine
- undo
- undoing
- undress
- unload
- unrig
- use up
- vagrant
- void
- ward of state
- wash up
- washout
- waste
- weaken
- wear
- wear down
- wear out
- weary
- welsher
- wind down
- wipe out
- withdraw
- wrack
- wreak havoc on
- wreck
- wrecker
- wrest
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