noun. A person, business, or organization legally declared insolvent because of inability to pay debts.

noun. A person who is totally lacking in a specified resource or quality.

adjective. undefined

adjective. Having been legally declared insolvent.

adjective. Financially ruined; impoverished.

adjective. undefined

adjective. Depleted of valuable qualities or characteristics.

adjective. Totally depleted; destitute.

adjective. Being in a ruined state.

transitive verb. To cause to become financially bankrupt.

transitive verb. To ruin.

To make insolvent; render unable to meet just claims.

To reduce to beggary; exhaust the resources of.

To become bankrupt; fail or become insolvent.

noun. The breaking up of a trader's business due to his inability to meet his obligations; bankruptcy.

noun. An insolvent person whose property is administered for, and distributed among, his creditors in accordance with the provisions of a system of laws called bankrupt, bankruptcy, or insolvent laws.

noun. In popular language, a hopelessly insolvent person; one who is notoriously unable to pay his debts; hence, one who is unable to satisfy just claims of any kind made upon him.

In the state of one who has committed an act of bankruptcy, or is insolvent; subject to or under legal process because of insolvency.

Unable to pay just debts, or to meet one's obligations; insolvent.

Figuratively, at the end of one's resources: as, to be bankrupt in thanks.

transitive verb. To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.

adjective. Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts.

adjective. Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities.

adjective. Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy.

adjective. Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess).

adjective. a law by which the property of a person who is unable or unwilling to pay his debts may be taken and distributed to his creditors, and by which a person who has made a full surrender of his property, and is free from fraud, may be discharged from the legal obligation of his debts. See Insolvent, a.

noun. A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.

noun. A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person.

noun. A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities.

adjective. having been legally declared insolvent.

verb. To force into bankruptcy.

noun. someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts

adjective. financially ruined

verb. reduce to bankruptcy

"As this practice was very frequent in Italy, it is said the term bankrupt is derived from the Italian _banco_ rotto, broken bench."

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