had been bankrupting

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of bankrupt.
  bankrupt

  noun

  a person who upon their own petition or that of their creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among their creditors under a bankruptcy law.

Related Words

• broke
• destitute
• failed
• insolvent