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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary bank·rupt
ETYMOLOGY modification of Middle French & Old Italian; Middle French banqueroute bankruptcy, from Old Italian bancarotta, from banca bank + rotta broken, from Latin rupta, feminine of ruptus,past participle of rumpere to break — more at bank , reave DATE 1533 1. a. a person who has done any of the acts that by law entitle creditors to have his or her estate administered for their benefit b. a person judicially declared subject to having his or her estate administered under the bankrupt laws for the benefit of creditors c. a person who becomes insolvent 2. a person who is completely lacking in a particular desirable quality or attribute a moral bankrupt
adjective DATE 1570 1. a. reduced to a state of financial ruin : impoverished ; specifically :legally declared a bankrupt the company went bankrupt b. of or relating to bankrupts or bankruptcy bankrupt laws 2. a. broken , ruined a bankrupt professional career b. exhausted of valuable qualities : sterile a bankrupt old culture c. destitute — used with of or in bankrupt of all merciful feelings
transitive verb DATE 1588 1. to reduce to bankruptcy 2. impoverish defections had bankrupted the party of its brainpower Synonyms: see deplete English Etymology bankrupt 1530s, from It. banca rotta, lit. "a broken bench,"from banca"moneylender's shop," lit. "bench" (see bank (1)) + rotta "broken, defeated, interrupted" from (and remodeled on) L. rupta, fem. pp.of rumpere "to break" (see rupture). "[S]o called from the habit of breaking the bench of bankrupts" [Klein]. The verb is first recorded 1550s. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 bankrupt bank·rupt / 5bANkrQpt / adjective1. without enough money to pay what you owe 破产；倒闭 SYN insolvent :
They went bankrupt in 1993. 他们于 1993 年破产了。 The company was declared bankrupt in the High Court. 那家公司经高等法院宣告破产了。 2. ~ (of sth) (formal, disapproving) completely lacking in anything that has value 完全缺乏(有价值的东西): a government bankrupt of new ideas 完全缺乏新观念的政府 a society that is morally bankrupt 道德沦丧的社会 noun (law 律) a person who has been judged by a court to be unable to pay his or her debts (经法院判决的)破产者verb[VN] to make sb bankrupt 使破产: The company was almost bankrupted by legal costs. 这家公司为律师费用所累几乎破产。 Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English bankrupt adj. VERBS be | become, go Hundreds of firms went bankrupt during the recession. | adjudge sb, adjudicate sb, declare sb, make sb She had to pay the mortgage after her husband was declared bankrupt. ADV. almost, nearly, virtually | economically, ideologically, morally (figurative) PREP. of (figurative) a government bankrupt of new ideas OLT bankrupt adj. ⇨ bankrupt (be made bankrupt)⇨ go bankrupt ⇨ close verb 2 Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged Search result show the entry is found in: notour bankrupt , or bankrupt worm bank·rupt I. \ˈbaŋk.ˌrəpt, -aiŋ-, -ŋ_krəpt\ noun (-s) Etymology: modification (influenced by Latin ruptus) of Middle French & Old Italian; Middle French banqueroute, from Old Italian bancarotta, from banca bank + rotta broken, from Latin rupta, feminine of ruptus, past participle of rumpere to break — more at bank , reave 1. obsolete : bankruptcy 2. a. obsolete : a person who to avoid payment of his debts secretes himself, flees the country, or defrauds or simply avoids his creditors and is in consequence legally a criminal b. : any person who has done any of the acts that the law provides shall entitle his creditors to have his estate administered for their benefit (as by the making of a general assignment) c. : a person who has on the petition of his creditors or on his own petition been judicially declared subject to having his estate administered under the bankrupt laws for the benefit of his creditors d. : a person who becomes insolvent — not used technically 3. : one who is destitute of or completely lacking in a particular thing < a moral bankrupt > < a bankrupt in all that is intellectually valuable > II. transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s) 1. a. : to bring about the legal bankruptcy of < high taxes and poor sales bankrupted the company > b. : deplete , impoverish < war had bankrupted the nation's natural resources and manpower > 2. a. : to render destitute of : deprive < a nervous breakdown bankrupted him of courage to face society > b. : to spoil completely : ruin < his revision made the novel more accurate historically but bankrupted it as a work of art > Synonyms: see deplete III. adjective 1. a. : in a state of financial ruin < the nation's finances are bankrupt > : impoverished < bankrupt peasantry > specifically : declared legally insolvent and with assets taken over by judicial process in order that they may be distributed among creditors < a bankrupt corporation > < the original owner of the company went bankrupt > b. : having to do with bankrupts or bankruptcy < bankrupt laws > 2. a. : broken , ruined < a bankrupt professional career > : come to an end : finished < bankrupt politicians > b. : depleted, sterile , exhausted < the conviction … that the world was morally and religiously bankrupt — G.G.Coulton > < a bankrupt old culture > c. : destitute , deprived — used with of or in < bankrupt of all merciful feelings > < bankrupt in resources > |
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