Dictionary Entry
bankrupt
bankrupt is a 8-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 20 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
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.
- 4adjective
Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant.
- 5adjective
Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury.
- 6adjective
Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy.
- 7adjective
Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
- 8transitive verb
To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.
- 9noun
someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts
Synonyms
- 10verb
reduce to bankruptcy
"My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"
"The slump in the financial markets smashed him"
- 11adjective
financially ruined
"a bankrupt company"
"the company went belly-up"
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