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Bankrupt
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.
(2):
(n.) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
(3):
(a.) Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury.
(4):
(a.) Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
(5):
(n.) 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.
(6):
(a.) Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant.
(7):
(a.) Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy.
(8):
(n.) A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Bankrupt'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/bankrupt.html. 1828.
