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bankrupted

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verb

past tense of bankrupt
as in ruined
to cause to lose one's fortune and become unable to pay one's debts several bad investments bankrupted him

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bankrupted
Adjective
  • Telehealth business Thirty Madison in 2023 bought patient file assets from bankrupt The Pill Club for $23.2 million after acquiring women's health testing startup Nurx the year prior.
    Erin Brodwin, Axios, 5 Feb. 2025
  • The latest war has been catastrophic for the Palestinian people, and that is the culmination of years of bankrupt international policy.
    Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • And then in Joker 2, some people complained that the movie was ruined by the images on the screen and the sounds that accompanied them.
    Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Believing their beloved team already ruined mock drafting for the next two months, New York Giants fans probably hope for a loss against a Philadelphia Eagles team expected to rest starters Sunday.
    Jeff Howe, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Pritzker also sided with government unions over taxpayers by authorizing around $100 million in new annual pension sweeteners for two nearly insolvent Chicago funds.
    Forrest Claypool, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025
  • In the past, the Chinese government had preferred financially sound developers over insolvent ones when deciding their eligibility to get government support.
    Bloomberg, Fortune Asia, 26 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Unfortunately, not long after Sow arrived in early 2022, the school went out of business, leaving the 15-year-old homeless and penniless with nowhere to go.
    Steve Hartman, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Harper and Ullman said the younger women sometimes looked after elderly, infirm or penniless prisoners.
    Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2025
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“Bankrupted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bankrupted. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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