Word Meanings - BANKRUPT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors. Blackstone. 2. A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person.

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A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors. Blackstone. 2. A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person. M (more info) banca bank + rotta broken, fr. L. ruptus, p.p. of rumpere to break. At Florence, it is said, the bankrupt had his bench broken. See 1st Bank, and

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BANKRUPT)

• Defaulter
• Debtor
• insolvent
• bankrupt
• Insolvent
• Bankrupt
• ruined
• penniless
• beggared

Related words: (words related to BANKRUPT)

• BEGGARLY
  1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9. 2. Produced
• BANKRUPT
  A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors. Blackstone. 2. A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person.
• PENNILESS
  Destitute of money; impecunious; poor. -- Pen"ni*less*ness, n.
• BEGGAR
  1. One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner. 2. One who makes it his business to ask alms. 3. One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use. 4. One who assumes in argument
• BEGGAR'S TICKS
  The bur marigold and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity.
• RUIN
  1. The act of falling or tumbling down; fall. "His ruin startled the other steeds." Chapman. 2. Such a change of anything as destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use; destruction; overthrow; as, the ruin of a ship or
• INSOLVENT
  Not solvent; not having sufficient estate to pay one's debts; unable to pay one's debts as they fall due, in the ordinary course of trade and business; as, in insolvent debtor. Not sufficient to pay all the debts of the owner; as, an insolvent
• BEGGAR'S LICE
  The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of Echinospermum and Cynoglossum) which cling to the clothing of those who brush by them.
• DEFAULTER
  1. One who makes default; one who fails to appear in court when court when called. 2. One who fails to perform a duty; a delinquent; particularly, one who fails to account for public money intrusted to his care; a peculator; a defalcator.
• RUINIFORM
  Having the appearance of ruins, or of the ruins of houses; -- said of certain minerals.
• BANKRUPTCY
  1. The state of being actually or legally bankrupt. 2. The act or process of becoming a bankrupt. 3. Complete loss; -- followed by of.
• BEGGARLINESS
  The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.
• RUINATION
  The act of ruining, or the state of being ruined.
• RUINER
  One who, or that which, ruins.
• RUINOUS
  1. Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project. After a night of storm so ruinous. Milton. 2. Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
• DEBTOR
  One who owes a debt; one who is indebted; -- correlative to creditor. bring your latter hazard back again, And thankfully rest debtor for the first. Shak. In Athens an insolvent debtor became slave to his creditor. Mitford. Debtors for our lives
• BEGGARISM
  Beggary.
• BEGGARHOOD
  The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars.
• BEGGARY
  1. The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty. 2. Beggarly appearance. The freedom and the beggary of the old studio. Thackeray. Syn. -- Indigence; want; penury; mendicancy.
• RUINATE
  1. To demolish; to subvert; to destroy; to reduce to poverty; to ruin. I will not ruinate my fShak. Ruinating thereby the health of their bodies. Burton. 2. To cause to fall; to cast down. On the other side they saw that perilous rock Threatening
• PRUINOUS
  Frosty; pruinose.
• BULLBEGGAR
  Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear. And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish. Mountfort .
• PRUINATE
  See PRUINOSE
• PRUINOSE
  Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost.
• COUPLE-BEGGAR
  One who makes it his business to marry beggars to each other. Swift.