Decrease and Bankrupt

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

noun

• Someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts.
  • synonyms: insolvent

verb

• Reduce to bankruptcy.
  • usage: "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him"
  • synonyms: ruin, break, smash

adjective

• Financially ruined.
  • usage: "a bankrupt company"; "the company went belly-up"
  • synonyms: belly-up

• (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.
• (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.
• (n.) A trader who secretes himself or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
• (a.) Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury.
• (v.t.) To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.
• (a.) Destitute of or wholly wanting (something once possessed or something one should possess).
• (a.) Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy.
• (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.

bankrupt is the entity that files a bankruptcy; the debtor; the insolvent entity. This is a non-technical term and is not used in the Bankruptcy Code.