What is the meaning of bankrupt?

noun

  • Someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts.

verb

  • Reduce to bankruptcy.
    • usage: "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him"

adjective

  • Financially ruined.
    • usage: "a bankrupt company"; "the company went belly-up"
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