(transitive) To force into bankruptcy.

(finance) In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay one's debts. / Having been legally declared insolvent. / Destitute of, or wholly lacking (something once possessed, or something one should possess).

One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person. / (UK, law, obsolete) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.

One who causes a bankruptcy.

plural of bankrupter

plural of bankrupt

present participle of bankrupt

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bankrupt

simple past tense and past participle of bankrupt

(obsolete) bankruptcy