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bankrupt
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bankrupt as in:  company went bankrupt

If we don't control spending, we'll go bankrupt.
bankrupt = into a state of being unable to pay money that is owed
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  • "Not the greatest specimen," Mack says, "but I got her cheap from this bankrupt circus out west."  (source)
    bankrupt = having to shutdown because it is unable to pay money that it owed
  • Before you came, I was thinking about how much time I had wasted in the same place, while my friends had moved on, and either went bankrupt or did better than they had before.  (source)
    bankrupt = were unable to pay their bills
  • But the school had gone bankrupt, which perhaps should have made them think twice.  (source)
    bankrupt = legally declared to be unable to pay money that is owed
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  • A former Salem minister, George Burroughs, had had to borrow money to pay for his wife's funeral, and, since the parish was remiss in his salary, he was soon bankrupt.  (source)
    bankrupt = legally declared to be unable to pay money that is owed
  • Even at the end, when International Genetic Technologies filed for Chapter 11 protection in United States Bankruptcy Court in San Francisco on October 5, 1989, the proceedings drew little press attention.  (source)
    Bankruptcy = legally declared unable to pay money that is owed
  • I shouldn't like to think of poor Regina's spending the rest of her life in some shabby foreign watering-place for bankrupts.†  (source)
  • In their heyday, these retreats were so conducive to frank expressions of sentiment that if one were to eavesdrop at their tables for a month, one would be able to anticipate all of the bankruptcies, weddings, and wars of the year to come.†  (source)
  • Because you and Rose bankrupted the farm.†  (source)
  • He knocked me out of the game in the first five rounds and started bankrupting my morn and Paul.†  (source)
  • But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.  (source)
    bankrupt = unable to meet its obligations
  • Unfortunately for them, this didn't get them any money, as the United States was beyond bankruptcy.  (source)
    bankruptcy = the inability to pay money that is owed
  • Being answered in the affirmative, he said he was sorry for me, because it was an expensive undertaking, and the expense would be lost; for Philadelphia was a sinking place, the people already half-bankrupts, or near being so; all appearances to the contrary, such as new buildings and the rise of rents, being to his certain knowledge fallacious; for they were, in fact, among the things that would soon ruin us.†  (source)
  • But that which a man is, does always by necessity acquire, and what the man acquires is living property, which does not wait the beck of rulers, or mobs, or revolutions, or fire, or storm, or bankruptcies, but perpetually renews itself wherever the man breathes.†  (source)
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bankrupt as in:  bankrupt idea

It is a bankrupt approach to solving the problem.
bankrupt = without value
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I reached a state of spiritual bankruptcy.
bankruptcy = a state of lacking of good qualities
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