- bankrupt, belly-up - financially ruined; "a bankrupt company"; "the company went belly-up"
Antonym: solvent (indirect, via insolvent)
- bankrupt, insolvent - someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts
--1 is a kind of failure, loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful person
- bankrupt, ruin, break, smash - reduce to bankruptcy; "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him"
--1 is one way to impoverish
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun bankruptcy2
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody