1. To cause to become financially insolvent: "The officials have been bankrupting their company with excessive spending and inadequate sales to cover those expenses."
2. To ruin: "The newspaper had an administration that bankrupted its credibility by seeking to manipulate the news."

1. Pertaining to having been legally declared financially insolvent: "The new business was existing in a bankrupted condition and would have to get a new loan if it were to continue."
2. A reference to being depleted of valuable qualities or characteristics: "The senator turned out to be a morally and ethically bankrupted politician."
3. Characteristic of being totally depleted; destitute: "Jerome was bankrupt of new ideas for the project." 4. Relating to being in a ruined state: "The country had in a bankrupted foreign policy and a bankrupted economy."