Synonyms for bankrupted

Grammar : Verb

Spell : bangk-ruhpt, -ruhpt

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbæŋk rʌpt, -rəpt

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Définition of bankrupted

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 :

The panic destroyed the railways and bankrupted the inhabitants.
Extract from : « The Last American Frontier » by Frederic L. (Frederic Logan) Paxson

Any other industry than that of agriculture would have been bankrupted.
Extract from : « History of Farming in Ontario » by C. C. James

Heredity has bankrupted him before he started on his career.
Extract from : « Black and White » by Timothy Thomas Fortune

Let me not have bankrupted myself for a trust thou wilt not give!
Extract from : « The City of Delight » by Elizabeth Miller

He would have drained dry a king's treasury, and have bankrupted Monte-Cristo's island of buried millions.
Extract from : « The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume II (of 2) » by Benjamin Ellis Martin

Do you think He bankrupted Himself giving you and me the little sense, the little power thats in us?
Extract from : « Wheat and Huckleberries » by Charlotte Marion (White) Vaile

The war, liberation of slaves, the sudden extinguishment of millions of property, bankrupted the South.
Extract from : « Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, June 1899 » by Various

I had actually made property while moving, an operation that was so expensive that it bankrupted many people.
Extract from : « Vandemark's Folly » by Herbert Quick

Many local unions had bankrupted themselves by paying large sick benefits.
Extract from : « Beneficiary Features of American Trade Unions » by James B. Kennedy

Though financially strengthened the intellectuals have been bankrupted, as a class, by the war for liberty.
Extract from : « The Sacred Egoism of Sinn Fein » by Gnathai Gan Iarraidh

Antonyms for bankrupted

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