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were bankrupting

  • past progressive
    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.

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Some of them were bankrupting their own boodle-bag husbands.

From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes