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pt] 
| 1. | Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law. |
| 2. | any insolvent debtor; a person unable to satisfy any just claims made upon him or her. |
| 3. | a person who is lacking in a particular thing or quality: a moral bankrupt. |
| 4. | Law. subject to or under legal process because of insolvency; insolvent. |
| 5. | at the end of one's resources; lacking (usually fol. by of or in): bankrupt of compassion; bankrupt in good manners. |
| 6. | pertaining to bankrupts or bankruptcy. |
| 7. | to make bankrupt: His embezzlement bankrupted the company. |