bankrupting

as inreduce
as inruin
as inimpoverish
as inbreak
as inpauperize
as inpoop
as intire out
as indeplete
as indeprive
as indismantle
as indivest
as indo in
as indrain
as inexhaust
as inexhaust
as ingo under

Synonyms for bankrupting

verb make less; decrease

Antonyms for bankrupting

Word Origin & History

1560s, from Italian banca rotta, literally "a broken bench," from banca "moneylender's shop," literally "bench" (see bank (n.1)) + rotta "broken, defeated, interrupted" from (and remodeled on) Latin rupta, fem. past participle of rumpere "to break" (see rupture (n.)). "[S]o called from the habit of breaking the bench of bankrupts" [Klein]. Earlier in English as a noun, "bankrupt person" (1530s).

Example Sentences for bankrupting

Some of them were bankrupting their own boodle-bag husbands.

I could not with any large degree of sincerity thank the "Alta" for bankrupting my lecture-raid.

The old palace of Ahab, built with bankrupting magnificence by that renegade king of Israel, had long since fallen to ruin.

But on the contrary, should he be found in the course of time, this wild extravagance would result in bankrupting her.