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| Main Entry: |
bankrupt
 [bangk-ruhpt, -ruhpt] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unable to pay debts |
| Synonyms: | broke, depleted, destitute, exhausted, failed, impoverished, in Chapter 11, insolvent, lacking, lost, out of business, ruined, spent, tapped out |
| Antonyms: | rich, solvent, wealthy |
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| Main Entry: | break |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | weaken, cause instability |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, bust, confound, confute, controvert, cow, cripple, declass, degrade, demerit, demoralize, demote, disconfirm, dispirit, disprove, downgrade, enervate, enfeeble, humiliate, impair, impoverish, incapacitate, pauperize, rebut, reduce, refute, ruin, subdue, tame, undermine |
| Notes: | to brake is to slow or stop while break is to cause to separate into pieces suddenly or violently, smash or crack |
| Antonyms: | stabilize, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | broke |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without money |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, beggared, bust, cleaned out, destitute, dirt poor, flat broke, impoverished, in Chapter 11, in debt, indebted, indigent, insolvent, needy, penniless, penurious, poor, ruined, stone broke, strapped, tapped out |
| Antonyms: | affluent, rich, solvent, wealthy |
Example Sentences
- Unless he is hoping to get subsidies from a bankrupt government staggering toward economic collapse.
- Many utilities had to go bankrupt or go through painful reorganization.
- When a player gets into debt and can't persuade anybody else to lend to him, he goes bankrupt.
| Main Entry: | closed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shut, out of service |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, dark, fastened, folded, gone fishing, locked, not open, out of business, out of order, padlocked, sealed, shut down |
| Antonyms: | in business, open, running, working |
| Main Entry: | deplete |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | consume, exhaust supply |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, bleed, decrease, dig into, diminish, drain, draw, dry up, empty, evacuate, expend, finish, impoverish, lessen, milk, reduce, sap, spend, squander, suck dry, undermine, use up, wash up, waste, weaken |
| Antonyms: | add, augment, expand, fill, give, increase |
| Main Entry: | deprive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | keep or take away something wanted, needed |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, bare, bereave, denude, despoil, disinherit, dismantle, dispossess, disrobe, divest, dock, expropriate, hold back, lose, oust, rob, seize, skim, stiff, strip, wrest |
| Antonyms: | appropriate, bestow, confer, endow, give, indulge, offer, present, supply |
| Main Entry: | destitute |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | down and out; wanting |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, beggared, bereft, busted, dead broke, deficient, depleted, deprived of, devoid of, dirt poor, divested, drained, empty, exhausted, flat broke, flat*, impecunious, impoverished, in need of, indigent, insolvent, lacking, moneyless, necessitous, needy, on the breadline, on the rocks, penniless, penurious, pinched, played out, poor, poverty-stricken, stony, strapped, stripped, totaled, wiped out, without |
| Antonyms: | lucky, prosperous, rich, secure, wealthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dismantle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take apart |
| Synonyms: | annihilate, bankrupt, bare, break down, break up, decimate, demolish, denudate, denude, deprive, destroy, disassemble, dismember, dismount, disrobe, divest, fell, knock down, level, part out, pull down, raze, ruin, strike, strip, subvert, take down, take to pieces, tear down, undo, unrig, wrack, wreck |
| Antonyms: | assemble, build, combine, construct, put together, raise |
| Main Entry: | divest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dispossess; take off |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, bare, bereave, bleed, denudate, denude, deprive, despoil, disinherit, dismantle, disrobe, ditch*, doff, dump, eighty-six, lose, milk, oust, plunder, remove, rob, seize, spoil, strip, take from, unclothe, uncover, undress, unload |
| Antonyms: | clothe, cover, invest, possess, take |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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