as in devoid
utterly lacking in something needed, wanted, or expected
the company's product development team was bankrupt of ideas
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as in derelict
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as in insolvent
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Recent Examples of bankrupt
Trudy Rubin, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025
The plan is intended to prevent the company from being dissolved, forced into liquidation or formally declared bankrupt.
—Michelle Toh, CNN, 19 May 2020
Pete McKenzie, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
The wheel never falls on bankrupt in the final spin.
—Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 May 2025
Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 July 2025
The company warned that a strike could bankrupt it.
—John Stossel, Oc Register, 16 July 2025
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Adjective
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan bankrupts media and corporate opponents with endless lawsuits.
—Trudy Rubin, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025
The plan is intended to prevent the company from being dissolved, forced into liquidation or formally declared bankrupt.
—Michelle Toh, CNN, 19 May 2020
Verb
Fiji’s capital, Suva, is bordered on one side by jagged mountains and on the other by a harbor speckled with the hulking wrecks of fishing vessels and cargo ships abandoned by bankrupt companies and neglectful owners.
—Pete McKenzie, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
The wheel never falls on bankrupt in the final spin.
—Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 May 2025
Noun
The next president, or even the current one should his notoriously mercurial mood change, could effectively bankrupt them all.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 July 2025
The company warned that a strike could bankrupt it.
—John Stossel, Oc Register, 16 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bankrupt
Adjective
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Banking has become functionally correct but emotionally devoid, with the industry swimming in a sea of sameness.—
Michael Abbott,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
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Delle, devoid for so long from its intrinsic need for social interaction might be filling in the gaps by talking to himself.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
14 Feb. 2023
Verb
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However, for some, gambling is an addiction that can ruin lives and families.—
Don Sweeney,
Miami Herald,
14 Aug. 2025
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But a sewer backup during this weekend's historic flood ruined 60 of the backpacks, Maya Bell reports.—
Hope Karnopp,
jsonline.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The diocese acknowledged that the value of Diocesan assets available to resolve claims, including any available insurance coverage, may not be sufficient to cover the claims and could leave the diocese insolvent.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
1 July 2025
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This omnibus pledge can have the effect of rendering the debtor insolvent such that any transfer that the debtor tries to make for asset protection purposes is voidable by a creditor.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The bill also contains provisions that any agreement to the contrary, other than a collective bargaining agreement, would be void.—
Dale Nelson,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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If the player does not take a snap for any NFL team in the stated regular season, bets are void.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Only 17% of those arrested were adjudicated delinquent.—
Angele Latham,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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After 90 days of nonpayment, student loan servicers report delinquent, or past-due, accounts to major credit bureaus, which use the information to recalculate the borrower’s score.—
Cora Lewis,
Los Angeles Times,
16 June 2025
Adjective
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When Theodore Hook’s destitute daughter neared death in 1893, a friend doxxed her, sharing her address with the world in the hope that donations would trickle in and ease her final days.—
Daniel Seifert,
JSTOR Daily,
16 July 2025
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The rising middle-class population change is expected to account for over 75% of expenditure growth, opening new market opportunities and lifting millions out of poverty, decreasing the percentage of destitute households from 15% today to just 6% by 2031.—
Sarwant Singh,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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“Bankrupt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bankrupt. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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