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bankrupted

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verb

past tense of bankrupt
as in ruined
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
Verb
Richard Stockton, a lawyer who signed the declaration was captured, starved, and nearly bankrupted by the British. — Joseph Andrew, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026 Most manufacturers were bankrupted by equipment failures and financial challenges, making the 1990s a tough time for wind power’s pioneers. — IEEE Spectrum, 15 June 2026 Fuel consumption for such a vessel would also likely have bankrupted the Japanese Navy. — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 7 May 2026 Yet much of the region’s decline was caused by Russian or pro-Russian oligarchs who had bought up factories, bankrupted them to eliminate competition, and imposed brutal conditions on workers. — Nataliya Gumenyuk, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026 Enveloped in their own scandals of excess, Pantages, Mills and Shreve were bankrupted. — Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026 Alamariu pointed out that the two European countries had effectively lost their empires by then after being bankrupted by World War II. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026 Woodstock gave its name to a generation, but the concert itself was a debacle that nearly bankrupted its promoters. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026 Once the world’s leading producer, it was bankrupted by China’s price dumping. — Markos Kounalakis, Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bankrupted
Adjective
  • Should Ava Dash get a job there next season of Next Gen NYC now that her father is bankrupt?
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The league found that the Clippers and Ballmer facilitated off-court income opportunities for Leonard, which included arrangements with the now-bankrupt financial services company Aspiration.
    — Joshua Hong, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • My brother’s wife has ruined each and every get-together by having constant fights with her little boy about eating.
    — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Tyrese Maxey scored 28 points, Jaylen Brown had 19, Joel Embiid had 13 points and 11 rebounds, and the Sixers ruined the Knicks' championship party.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • At the same time, Social Security's trust fund is projected to become insolvent in six years.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The program’s trust fund is set to become insolvent by 2032 under current policy, so changes have to be made, and soon.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • Yet after the apparent death of Captain Crewe in World War I, Sara’s headmistress confines the now-penniless child in the school’s attic.
    — Sohini Sarah Pillai, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026
  • In the summer of 1927 three young men of means ran into a neighbor from back home in Winnetka, Illinois, on the streets of Paris, who was stranded with a penniless delegation of labor leaders and educators intended for Moscow.
    — Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 1 Aug. 2026

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“Bankrupted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bankrupted. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.

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