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to bankrupt
01
to cause a person or organization to become legally unable to pay debts
Grammatical Information
Composition
derived
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
bankrupt
3rd person singular
bankrupts
Present participle
bankrupting
Past simple
bankrupted
Past participle
bankrupted
Examples
Poor sales bankrupted the family business within a year.
bankrupt
01
(of organizations or people) legally declared as unable to pay their debts to creditors
Grammatical Information
Composition
past participle adjective
qualitative
Superlative
most bankrupt
Comparative
more bankrupt
gradable
Examples
After years of financial mismanagement, the business went bankrupt.
Bankrupt
01
a person or organization that has been legally declared unable to pay their debts
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Human
Composition
Compound
Countable
Plural form
bankrupts
Examples
After the failed business venture, he was declared a bankrupt.
