n. 25B6; adjective
the company was declared bankrupt : INSOLVENT, failed, ruined, in debt, owing money, in the red, in arrears; Brit. in administration, in receivership; informal bust, belly up, gone to the wall, broke, flat broke; informal, dated smashed; Brit. informal skint, stony broke, in Queer Street; Brit. informal, dated in Carey Street.
this government is bankrupt of ideas : BEREFT, devoid, empty, destitute; completely lacking, without, in need of, wanting; informal minus, sans.
solvent, teeming with.
25B6; verb the strike nearly bankrupted the union : RUIN, impoverish, reduce to penury/destitution, bring to ruin, bring someone to their knees, wipe out, break, pauperize; rare beggar.