bankrupt

adjective

1 the company was declared bankrupt:

insolvent, bankrupted;

failed, ruined, wiped out, gone under;

in debt, owing money, in the red, in arrears;

British in administration, in receivership;

informal bust, belly up, gone to the wall, on the rocks, broke, flat broke;

informal , dated smashed;

British, informal skint, stony broke, cleaned out, in Queer Street;

British, informal , dated in Carey Street.

▷antonyms solvent.

2 this government is bankrupt of ideas:

completely lacking in, without, bereft of, exhausted of, devoid of, empty of, depleted of, destitute of, vacant of, bare of, denuded of, deprived of;

in need of, wanting;

informal minus, sans.

▷antonyms teeming with.

noun

he was soon a bankrupt:

insolvent, bankrupt person;

debtor;

pauper.

verb

the strike nearly bankrupted the union:

ruin, make bankrupt, cause to go bankrupt, make insolvent, impoverish, reduce to penury/destitution, bring to ruin, bring someone to their knees, wipe out, break, cripple;

rare pauperize, beggar.