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bankrupting

bankrupting is the present participle and gerund of bankrupt.

Meaning of bankrupt

Verb

bankrupt (third-person singular simple present bankrupts, present participle bankrupting, simple past and past participle bankrupted)

  1. (transitive) To force into bankruptcy.
    • The cost of the Mendip line had, however, bankrupted the S.D.R. [Somerset & Dorset Railway], and it was leased to the two larger companies for 999 years in 1875, and named the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway.1953 August, David R. Webb, “By Rail to Bournemouth”, in Railway Magazine, page 553
  2. to get placed last in Tycoon with the bankruptcy rule

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Questions about bankrupting

What is bankrupting the present participle and gerund of?
Bankrupting is the present participle and gerund of bankrupt.

Words near bankrupting in the dictionary

  1. bankrupted
  2. bankruptee
  3. bankruptees
  4. bankrupter
  5. bankrupters
  6. bankrupting
  7. bankruptism
  8. bankruptlike
  9. bankruptly
  10. bankruptness
  11. bankrupts

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