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Grammar : Verb
Spell : bangk-ruhpt, -ruhpt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbæŋk rʌpt, -rəpt

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Définition of bankrupted

Origin :
  • 1560s, from Italian banca rotta, literally "a broken bench," from banca "moneylender's shop," literally "bench" (see bank (n.1)) + rotta "broken, defeated, interrupted" from (and remodeled on) Latin rupta, fem. past participle of rumpere "to break" (see rupture (n.)). "[S]o called from the habit of breaking the bench of bankrupts" [Klein]. Earlier in English as a noun, "bankrupt person" (1530s).
  • As in reduce : verb make less; decrease
  • As in ruin : verb devastate, destroy
  • As in impoverish : verb make poor
  • As in break : verb weaken, cause instability
  • As in pauperize : verb ruin
  • As in poop : verb exhaust
  • As in tire out : verb exhaust
  • As in deplete : verb consume, exhaust supply
  • As in deprive : verb keep or take away something wanted, needed
  • As in dismantle : verb take apart
  • As in divest : verb dispossess; take off
  • As in do in : verb destroy; exhaust
  • As in drain : verb remove liquid; remove supply
  • As in exhaust : verb tire or wear out
  • As in exhaust : verb consume, use up
  • As in go under : verb fail, submerge
Example sentences :
  • The panic destroyed the railways and bankrupted the inhabitants.
  • Extract from : « The Last American Frontier » by Frederic L. (Frederic Logan) Paxson
  • Any other industry than that of agriculture would have been bankrupted.
  • Extract from : « History of Farming in Ontario » by C. C. James
  • Heredity has bankrupted him before he started on his career.
  • Extract from : « Black and White » by Timothy Thomas Fortune
  • Let me not have bankrupted myself for a trust thou wilt not give!
  • Extract from : « The City of Delight » by Elizabeth Miller
  • He would have drained dry a king's treasury, and have bankrupted Monte-Cristo's island of buried millions.
  • Extract from : « The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume II (of 2) » by Benjamin Ellis Martin
  • Do you think He bankrupted Himself giving you and me the little sense, the little power thats in us?
  • Extract from : « Wheat and Huckleberries » by Charlotte Marion (White) Vaile
  • The war, liberation of slaves, the sudden extinguishment of millions of property, bankrupted the South.
  • Extract from : « Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, June 1899 » by Various
  • I had actually made property while moving, an operation that was so expensive that it bankrupted many people.
  • Extract from : « Vandemark's Folly » by Herbert Quick
  • Many local unions had bankrupted themselves by paying large sick benefits.
  • Extract from : « Beneficiary Features of American Trade Unions » by James B. Kennedy
  • Though financially strengthened the intellectuals have been bankrupted, as a class, by the war for liberty.
  • Extract from : « The Sacred Egoism of Sinn Fein » by Gnathai Gan Iarraidh

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