Founder

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To sink below the surface of the water: The ship struck a reef and foundered.
  • verb-intransitive. To cave in; sink: The platform swayed and then foundered.
  • verb-intransitive. To fail utterly; collapse: a marriage that soon foundered.
  • verb-intransitive. To stumble, especially to stumble and go lame. Used of horses.
  • verb-intransitive. To become ill from overeating. Used of livestock.
  • verb-intransitive. To be afflicted with laminitis. Used of horses.
  • v. To cause to founder.
  • n. See laminitis.
  • n. One who establishes something or formulates the basis for something: the founder of a university; the founders of a new nation.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom something originates; one who endows.
  • n. Someone for whose parents one has no data.
  • n. The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
  • v. Of a ship, to fill with water and sink.
  • v. To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
  • v. To fail; to miscarry.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
  • n. One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
  • verb-intransitive. To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.
  • verb-intransitive. To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
  • verb-intransitive. To fail; to miscarry.
  • v. To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.
  • n. A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh.
  • n. An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism. See chest ffounder.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who founds or establishes.
  • n. An originator; one from whom anything derives its beginning; an author: as, the founder of a sect of philosophers; the founder of a family.
  • n. One who establishes by endowment; one who provides a permanent fund for any purpose: as, the founder of a college or hospital.
  • n. A creator; a maker.
  • n. One who founds metals, or articles of metal or glass (the material of which is called metal); a caster: as, a founder of cannon, bells, printing-types, etc.
  • Nautical, to fill or become filled and sink, as a ship.
  • Hence To fail; miscarry.
  • To trip; stumble; go lame, as a horse.
  • Naut., to cause to fill and sink, as a ship.
  • To cause internal inflammation in the feet of, as a horse, so as to disable or lame him.
  • n. In farriery, lameness caused by inflammation within the hoof of a horse; laminitis. Also called closh.
  • In golf, to drive the ball into the ground by turning in the face of the club when striking.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse
  • v. stumble and nearly fall
  • v. sink below the surface
  • v. break down, literally or metaphorically
  • n. a worker who makes metal castings
  • n. a person who founds or establishes some institution
  • v. fail utterly; collapse
  • Verb Form
    founded    foundered    foundering    founders    founding    founds   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rubor    inflammation    redness    stumble    trip    godown    go under    sink    settle    miscarry   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    author    caster    fall    fail    miscarry    closh    establisher    projector    father    patriarch   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    bounder    cofounder    flounder    grounder    pounder    rounder    sounder   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    statesman    patron    ruler    director    professor    representative    president    leader    architect    benefactor