bankrupts
Wipes out financially
Bankrupts functions as verb and noun from bankrupt.
To bankrupt someone is to reduce them to financial ruin: The lawsuit bankrupted the company.
As a noun, bankrupts are people or entities legally declared unable to pay their debts.
Figuratively, something can bankrupt a person of non-financial resources: The scandal bankrupted him of credibility.
Inability to pay debts
- creditorsThose owed payment
- debtMoney owed another
- liquidationSelling assets for cash
- defaultPreset standard option
receivership · foreclosure · debtor · arrears · restructuring · administration · liabilities · trustees
insolvency
Inability to pay debts
- creditorsThose owed payment
- debtMoney owed another
- liquidationSelling assets for cash
default · receivership · foreclosure · debtor · arrears · restructuring · administration · liabilities · trustees · petition
collapse
Sudden structural failure
devastation · bust · crash · broke · penniless · destitute · impoverished · undone · finished · destroyed
- unfortunatesvictims, unfortunate, wretch, poor soul, lost soul
bankruptsenriches
Adds quality or worth
prospers · capitalizes · funds · finances · endows
bankruptssustains
Keeps in existence
replenishes · restores · revitalizes · reinvigorates · saves
bankruptsreplenishes
Fills again after depletion
restores · fills · stocks · supplies · provisions
- go bankruptBecome legally insolvent
- going bankruptLegally insolvent status
- gone bankruptLegally declared unable to pay debts
- went bankruptDeclared legally insolvent
- morally bankruptLacking all ethical principles
- goes bankruptBecomes legally insolvent