bankrupt
• adjective 1 declared in law unable to pay one’s debts. 2 completely lacking in a particular good quality or value: morally bankrupt. • noun a person legally declared as bankrupt. • verb reduce to a bankrupt state. — DERIVATIVES bankruptcy noun (pl. bankruptcies). — ORIGIN from Italian banca rotta ‘broken bench’.
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