"break the bank" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-break the bank.ogg [Australia] Forms: breaks the bank [present, singular, third-person], breaking the bank [participle, present], broke the bank [past], broken the bank [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|break<,,broke,broken> the bank}} break the bank (third-person singular simple present breaks the bank, present participle breaking the bank, simple past broke the bank, past participle broken the bank)
  1. (intransitive) At a casino etc., to win all the money that is available to be paid. Tags: intransitive Translations (win all the money that is available to be paid): fer saltar la banca (Catalan), 贏大錢 (Chinese Mandarin), 赢大钱 (yíng dàqián) (Chinese Mandarin), 讓銀行倒閉 (Chinese Mandarin), 让银行倒闭 (ràng yínháng dǎobì) (Chinese Mandarin), räjäyttää pankki (Finnish), faire sauter la banque (French), die Bank sprengen (German), far saltare il banco (Italian), rozbijać bank [imperfective] (Polish), rozbić bank [perfective] (Polish), сорва́ть банк (sorvátʹ bank) (Russian), hacer saltar la banca (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-break_the_bank-en-verb-dV1Js6PR Disambiguation of 'win all the money that is available to be paid': 95 5
  2. (intransitive, idiomatic) To exhaust one's financial resources. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Translations (exhaust one's financial resources): 耗費巨資 (Chinese Mandarin), 耗费巨资 (hàofèi jùzī) (Chinese Mandarin), 破產 (Chinese Mandarin), 破产 (pòchǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), 傾家蕩產 (Chinese Mandarin), 倾家荡产 (qīngjiādàngchǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), tuhlata rahansa (english: to squander one's money) (Finnish), casser sa tirelire (French), den finanziellen Rahmen sprengen (German), den finanziellen Spielraum übersteigen (German), прогоре́ть (progorétʹ) [perfective] (Russian), вы́лететь в трубу́ (výletetʹ v trubú) [perfective] (Russian), arruinarse (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-break_the_bank-en-verb-U3qh6hjM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 40 60 Disambiguation of "exhaust one's financial resources": 1 99

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "exhaust one's financial resources",
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