单词 | bankrupted |
释义 | bankruptedadj. Made bankrupt, reduced to bankruptcy or extreme poverty. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [adjective] > going bankrupt > bankrupt decoct1529 bankrupt1565 bankruptlike1625 cracked1632 bursten1638 bankrupted1649 crazy1700 crazed1732 busted1836 quisby1853 sold-out1859 bung1948 bust1964 1649 C. Sydenham Anat. Lilburn's Spirit Ep. Ded. sig. A2v Men of no more reputation, then what they get among discontented and bank-rooted persons. a1651 N. Culverwell Schisme 39 in Elegant Disc. Light of Nature (1652) What was there in thee to draw a Saviour down from heaven? was there such an attractive and magnetical vertue in an undone and bankrupted creature? 1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 22 Unmarried females..may always be ruined by a runaway agent, a bankrupted banker, or a roguish steward. 1795 Let. from Yeoman of Bucks. to Marquis of Buckingham 14 The fertile fields of Britain now afford subsistence to only one solitary family, perhaps one of the bankrupted farmers with a wife and five children! 1841 Extra Globe (Washington, D.C.) 27 Oct. 378/3 The irresponsible, morally bankrupted, British tainted fund-mongers. 1882 Cent. Mag. Jan. 379/1 Property..bought of a bankrupted owner. 1905 A. Jackson Sunday Rest in 20th Cent. 66 The time comes when the bankrupted brain and nervous system succumbs to some deadly disorder. 1993 Independent on Sunday 25 July (Review Suppl.) 10/4 The closed sawmills, the bankrupted log-hauling companies and the rest of the miseries of the timber industry. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1649 |
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