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to cause to lose one's fortune and become unable to pay one's debts
several bad investments bankrupted him
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Recent Examples of bankrupted
Markos Kounalakis, Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2026
The cases are ongoing, with plaintiffs also filing claims against the trusts of companies bankrupted by the litigation.
—Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
Born in 1926 in Weimar Germany, where hyperinflation bankrupted his father’s business, the young Linz witnessed the breakdown of democracy and the onset of Hitler’s dictatorship.
—Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
In the late 1830s, as a devastating financial crisis bankrupted antislavery societies across the North, the movement seemed splintered and powerless to keep up its petition pressure campaign.
—Time, 24 Sep. 2025
Multiple rocket explosions nearly bankrupted the company.
—Joel Shulman, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Jerry Garcia's 1977 pet project, which nearly bankrupted the band, screens in IMAX this weekend.
—Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2025
After two decades of free-spending leftist populism that has bankrupted the country, Bolivia has few options but to embrace responsible economic management.
—Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2025
The President is a grifter who bankrupted 6 casinos.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
Verb
Once the world’s leading producer, it was bankrupted by China’s price dumping.
—Markos Kounalakis, Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2026
The cases are ongoing, with plaintiffs also filing claims against the trusts of companies bankrupted by the litigation.
—Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
Born in 1926 in Weimar Germany, where hyperinflation bankrupted his father’s business, the young Linz witnessed the breakdown of democracy and the onset of Hitler’s dictatorship.
—Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
In the late 1830s, as a devastating financial crisis bankrupted antislavery societies across the North, the movement seemed splintered and powerless to keep up its petition pressure campaign.
—Time, 24 Sep. 2025
Multiple rocket explosions nearly bankrupted the company.
—Joel Shulman, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Jerry Garcia's 1977 pet project, which nearly bankrupted the band, screens in IMAX this weekend.
—Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2025
After two decades of free-spending leftist populism that has bankrupted the country, Bolivia has few options but to embrace responsible economic management.
—Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2025
The President is a grifter who bankrupted 6 casinos.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bankrupted
Adjective
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UConn Health’s purchase of Waterbury Hospital for $13 million from a bankrupt out-of-state, for-profit company took effect over the weekend.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
4 Mar. 2026
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Director William Friedkin’s film has been lauded for its gritty realism, morally grey (or perhaps outright bankrupt) anti-hero and its revolutionary chase sequences that inspire filmmakers to this day.—
Paul Fitzgerald,
Rolling Stone,
3 Mar. 2026
Verb
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What father would ever allow such devastation, assuring fellow patriarchs that their lives without sons would be ruined forever?—
David John Chávez,
Mercury News,
3 Mar. 2026
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Burd and Batalucco have essentially ruined their home by placing cameras everywhere so Friends Keep Secrets can always be capturing whoever is wherever.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The United States is technically insolvent.—
Les Rubin,
Boston Herald,
25 Feb. 2026
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Last fall, it was deemed insolvent and filed the Canadian equivalent of bankruptcy.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
19 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Twenty-four masterpieces, many rarely lent, were gathered from museums all over the world and brought together in the city where Caravaggio, born Michelangelo Merisi, arrived penniless in 1592.—
Nicole Krauss,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
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Most every novel written by a Brontë contains some variation on their father’s eternal romantic predicament: a penniless but upwardly mobile outlander, seeking an impossible match with a rich and prominent young woman.—
Rosemary Counter,
Vanity Fair,
12 Feb. 2026
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“Bankrupted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bankrupted. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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