bankrupt

bankrupt has 11 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• n.. A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
• n.. 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.
• n.. 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.
• a.. Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant.
• a.. Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury.
• a.. Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy.
• a.. Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
• v. t.. To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.
• n.. someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts
• v.. reduce to bankruptcy; "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him"
• a.. financially ruined; "a bankrupt company"; "the company went belly-up"