Bankrupt



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• adj.破产的
• ［英］ adj.破产的 ( unable to pay debts; insolvent)
• ［类］ 反义词: solvency ( 有尝债能力) -bankruptcy ( 破产)
• ［记］ bank ( 银行) +rupt ( 断) -> 破产
• ［同］ 派生词: bankruptcy ( n.破产) 同根词: corruption ( 腐败) ; interrupt ( 打断)

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: modification of Middle French & Old Italian; Middle French banqueroute bankruptcy, from Old Italian bancarotta, from banca bank + rotta broken, from Latin rupta, feminine of ruptus, past participle of rumpere to break — more at bank, reave
• Date: 1533
• 1.
  • a. a person who has done any of the acts that by law entitle creditors to have his or her estate administered for their benefit
  • b. a person judicially declared subject to having his or her estate administered under the bankrupt laws for the benefit of creditors
  • c. a person who becomes insolvent
• 2. a person who is completely lacking in a particular desirable quality or attribute <a moral bankrupt>

II. adjective

• Date: 1570
• 1.
  • a. reduced to a state of financial ruin ; impoverished; specifically legally declared a bankrupt <the company went bankrupt>
  • b. of or relating to bankrupts or bankruptcy <bankrupt laws>
• 2.
  • a. broken, ruined <a bankrupt professional career>
  • b. exhausted of valuable qualities ; sterile <a bankrupt old culture>
  • c. destitute — used with of or in<bankrupt of all merciful feelings>

III. transitive verb

• Date: 1588
• 1. to reduce to bankruptcy
• 2. impoverish <defections had bankrupted the party of its brainpower>
• Synonyms: see deplete

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