Bankrupt Synonyms and Antonyms

băngkrŭpt, -rəpt
To reduce to financial insolvency
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. break
  2. ruin
  3. impoverish
  4. bust
  5. deplete
  6. dispossess
  7. divest
  8. pauperize
  9. empty
  10. fail
  11. fold
  12. clean out
  13. liquidate
  14. spoil
  15. smash
Unable to pay debts
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. insolvent
  2. belly-up
  3. broke
  4. ruined
  5. failed
  6. barren
  7. out-of-business
  8. busted
  9. default
  10. depleted
  11. deprived
  12. destitute
  13. destroyed
  14. devour
  15. drain
  16. exhausted
  17. failure
  18. impecunious
  19. impoverished
  20. indebted
  21. liquidation
  22. on-the-rocks
  23. penniless
  24. poor
  25. landless
  26. ruin
  27. sap
  28. strip
  29. stripped
  30. propertyless
Antonyms:
  1. solvent
  2. wealthy
  3. rich
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To cause the complete ruin or wreckage of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. break down
  2. cross up
  3. demolish
  4. destroy
  5. finish
  6. ruin
  7. shatter
  8. sink
  9. smash
  10. spoil
  11. torpedo
  12. undo
  13. wash up
  14. wrack
  15. wreck
  16. total
Someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. insolvent
  2. bankruptcy
  3. composition
  4. depletion
  5. destitution
  6. failure
  7. foreclosure
  8. impoverishment
  9. insolvency
  10. receiver
  11. ruin

Words Related to Bankrupt

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Bankrupt Sentence Examples

  • It became bankrupt in 1784 and ceased to exist in 1793.

  • At that time the government had been bankrupt, foreign country.

  • An arrangement with the creditors was concluded in 1888; but in 1895 the republic again became bankrupt, and a fresh arrangement was sanctioned in March 1897, by which the interest on £1,475,000 was reduced to 22% and that on £525,000 to 3%.

  • He had accepted an engagement there as conductor; but, the lessee becoming bankrupt, the scheme was abandoned in favour of a better appointment at Riga.

  • It was shortly afterwards bankrupt, and in 1668 the Bank of Sweden (Sveriges Riksbank) succeeded it.

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