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# bankrupt

adjective; verb (bankrupt, bankrupts, bankrupted, bankrupting); noun (a bankrupt)

«bankrupt» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (money, law) A person or company that is bankrupt cannot pay their debts, and a court takes control of what they own to pay the people they owe. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bankrupt/#m1)
2. To bankrupt someone is to make them bankrupt. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bankrupt/#m2)
3. (informal) Bankrupt of something means having none of it left: bankrupt of ideas. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bankrupt/#m3)

### In the lessons

In money lessons, a business goes bankrupt when it owes more than it can ever pay back. In stories, a rich man may go bankrupt and lose his house. Toad spends so wildly on cars that his friends fear for his money. In Monopoly, a player who cannot pay is bankrupt and out of the game.

### Examples

- The shop went bankrupt and closed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bankrupt/#x1)
- His spending nearly bankrupted the family. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bankrupt/#x2)
- In Monopoly, you lose when you go bankrupt. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bankrupt/#x3)
- The company was declared bankrupt by the court. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bankrupt/#x4)
- The war left the country bankrupt. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bankrupt/#x5)
- The writer felt bankrupt of ideas. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bankrupt/#x6)

### Note

Noun: bankruptcy. Phrase: «go bankrupt». In maths, being bankrupt means your debts (what you owe) are bigger than what you own and can pay.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «bankrupt» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bankrupt/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«bankrupt» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/bankrupt.html) on Mova free.