bankrupt
verb/ˈbæŋkrʌpt/
/ˈbæŋkrʌpt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they bankrupt | /ˈbæŋkrʌpt/ /ˈbæŋkrʌpt/ |
| he / she / it bankrupts | /ˈbæŋkrʌpts/ /ˈbæŋkrʌpts/ |
| past simple bankrupted | /ˈbæŋkrʌptɪd/ /ˈbæŋkrʌptɪd/ |
| past participle bankrupted | /ˈbæŋkrʌptɪd/ /ˈbæŋkrʌptɪd/ |
| -ing form bankrupting | /ˈbæŋkrʌptɪŋ/ /ˈbæŋkrʌptɪŋ/ |
- bankrupt somebody to make somebody bankrupt
- The company was almost bankrupted by legal costs.
- The legal fees almost bankrupted us.
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Italian banca rotta ‘broken bench’, from banca (from medieval Latin banca, bancus, of Germanic origin) and rompere ‘to break’. The change in the ending was due to association with Latin rupt- ‘broken’.
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