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Legally insolvent, unable to pay one's debts
“His business lost favor with the public, and his lunch counter chain was bankrupt by 1923.”
Impoverished, having run out of funds or money
“In short, we are completely broke and bankrupt. Now, all we can do is sit and wonder what to do and patiently wait if anyone chooses to send any kind of help our way.”
Completely lacking in a particular (usually desirable) quality
“There's virtue to such curiosity and research, but it could also leave an exhausted writer holding an emotionally bankrupt manuscript in calloused hands.”
Without hope or prospect of completion, success, or survival
To impoverish or financially ruin
“This tax, if applied as recommended, would financially bankrupt most of the traders in question.”
To use up the supply or resources of
To fail as a business, usually due to bankruptcy
To remove or take away (something) from (someone)
To be detrimental to
To make someone tired
A person judged by a court to be insolvent and unable to pay one's debt
“Yes, the wealthy Kraft, dragged down by others, was now a bankrupt!”
A person, typically homeless, who lives by asking for money or food
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