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Synonyms & Antonyms for bankrupt
Synonyms: Adjective
bare, barren, bereft, destitute, devoid, void
Synonyms: Verb
Antonyms: Adjective
filled, flush, fraught, full, replete, rife
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As a lawyer, she specialized in working with bankrupts.Adjective
The lawsuit could leave them bankrupt. she's a kind soul, but bankrupt of all common sense, I'm afraidVerb
Several risky deals bankrupted the company. several bad investments bankrupted him
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From Henry Ford to Donald Trump, America has lionized business leaders (and shameless bankrupts) who disdain history. — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, "1998 Was a Seinfeld Election—Not an Impeachment Referendum," 6 June 2019 That perception came back to bite in big way later in 2008, with the failure of investment bank Lehman Brothers, which went bankrupt on Sept. 15, 2008. — Michael S. Derby, WSJ, "New York Fed Says It Wound Down Crisis Bailout Facility With $2.5 Billion Profit," 18 Sep. 2018 After earning $17 million, the men declared the company bankrupt. — Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, "The Great Interview Magazine Caper," 16 June 2018 Tarsila, bankrupt, divorced from de Andrade and increasingly Marxist, would veer into a more politically engaged style. — Jason Farago, New York Times, "She Led Latin American Art in a Bold New Direction," 15 Feb. 2018 Alitalia was officially declared bankrupt in May, when staff rejected a restructuring plan. — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, "Airline Dealmaking Won’t Cure Europe’s Profit Problem," 2 Aug. 2017 The business, which went bankrupt in previous incarnations in 2005 and 2009, may still find a way to restructure its debt out of court. — Lauren Coleman-lochner, Bloomberg.com, "Winn-Dixie and Tops Owners Are Said to Prepare for Bankruptcy," 17 Feb. 2018 Prior to the label going bankrupt, PolyGram Records purchased 50 percent of Def Jam, and took control of distribution to save the label. — Michael Saponara, Billboard, "A Timeline of the Major Events That Defined Def Jam's Legacy in Hip-Hop," 25 Jan. 2018 By Preston Turegano, Staff writer A new era begins today for the once bankrupt and demoralized San Diego Symphony. — sandiegouniontribune.com, "Record symphony gift," 14 Jan. 2018Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
Avenatti had owned the coffee business for several years after his investment firm bought the bankrupt company for $9.15 million at auction in 2013. — James Queally, The Seattle Times, "Lawyer Michael Avenatti, accused of fraud and attempts to extort Nike, is arrested," 25 Mar. 2019 Alix has been a major player in the market for advising bankrupt companies since the 1980s. — Tiffany Kary, Bloomberg.com, "McKinsey Hid Conflicts to Draw Bankruptcy Work, Alix Says," 9 May 2018 At an office party on Wall Street in 1929, my father learned that the owner of oceanfront property in New York’s East Atlantic Beach had gone bankrupt and was auctioning off the land. ... — Marc Myers, WSJ, "A New York Beach House Set the Stage for Playwright John Guare," 12 Mar. 2019 Marvel’s Fantastic Four, on the other hand, once went bankrupt and were evicted from their skyscraper headquarters. — Jeremy Dauber And Danny Fingeroth, WSJ, "The Superhero of the Comics Business," 16 Nov. 2018 Buy Photo Years after the city nearly went bankrupt and fell under state control, Harrisburg is finally in a good place financially, state and local officials agree. — Michaelle Bond, Philly.com, "How Pa.'s 'distressed' program helps towns; and why it's hard to leave it," 16 Mar. 2018 In response, the company is accelerating its store remodels in areas where bankrupt retailers once had stores. — Anne D'innocenzio, The Seattle Times, "Retailers aim to pick up business from defunct, dying rivals," 21 Nov. 2018 As with virtually all post-hurricane disaster relief in Puerto Rico, the work is contracted and paid for by bankrupt local agencies using money disbursed by FEMA from billions appropriated by Congress. — Michael Weissenstein And Danica Coto, Fox News, "Turmoil slows rebuilding of Puerto Rico's power grid," 19 July 2018 Others see it as an appropriately scornful term for a woman who was barely literate, left little for other women to emulate and led the bankrupt Qing dynasty to its downfall in a country whose government remains as male-dominated as ever. — New York Times, "Was This Powerful Chinese Empress a Feminist Trailblazer?," 10 July 2018Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
If this guy doesn’t bankrupt this country, it can never be bankrupted. — Chicago Tribune, Lake County News-Sun, "Talk of the County: Hope you liberals are happy with the 'tax-and-spend idiot billionaire' governor," 10 June 2019 Either of these developments, even when attempted separately, have bankrupted other organizations. — Andy Pasztor, WSJ, "SpaceX to Cut 10% of Workforce," 12 Jan. 2019 Why would anyone volunteer for a campaign to only be bankrupted because someone in the Justice Department doesn’t like the winner? — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, "The GOP's Pollyanna problem," 20 Aug. 2018 The president of the Reinsurance Association of America says global warming could bankrupt his industry. — Fred Krupp, WSJ, "Capitalism Will Solve the Climate Problem," 22 July 2018 One of their two daughters, however, stole $5 million from the business in the early 1990s, nearly bankrupting the family and the company, the lawsuit claimed. — Ronald J. Hansen, azcentral, "Before allegedly setting up scam PACs, William Tierney was active in Arizona GOP politics," 19 May 2018 In 1964, other Saudi royals dethroned Prince Mohammed’s uncle, King Saud, who had bankrupted the kingdom and sparked infighting within the royal family. — Karen Elliott House, WSJ, "Rethinking Saudi Arabia," 30 Nov. 2018 Families are nearly bankrupted by their teenagers’ trips to in-patient rehabs. — Sally Satel, WSJ, "‘Dopesick’ and ‘The Addiction Solution’ Review: Examining an Epidemic," 7 Aug. 2018 Cat bonds emerged in the mid-1990s, after Hurricane Andrew ravaged the Florida coast and bankrupted nearly a dozen insurance companies, which didn’t have the money to cover such a massive storm. — latimes.com, "Mexico's disaster bonds were meant to provide quick cash after hurricanes and earthquakes. But it often hasn’t worked out that way," 8 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'bankrupt.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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