bankrupt: Meaning and Definition of

bank•rupt

1. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
2. any insolvent debtor; a person unable to satisfy any just claims made upon him or her.
3. a person who is lacking in a particular thing or quality: a moral bankrupt.

1. subject to or under legal process because of insolvency; insolvent.
2. at the end of one's resources; lacking (usually fol. by of or in): bankrupt of compassion; bankrupt in good manners.
3. pertaining to bankrupts or bankruptcy.

1. to make bankrupt: His embezzlement bankrupted the company.