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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. (of a ship) sinking;
[syn: foundering, going under]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Founder \Found"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Foundered; p. pr. & vb. n. Foundering.] [OF. fondrer to fall in, cf. F. s'effondrer, fr. fond bottom, L. fundus. See Found to establish.] 1. (Naut.) To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship. [1913 Webster] 2. To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse. [1913 Webster] For which his horse fear['e] gan to turn, And leep aside, and foundrede as he leep. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 3. To fail; to miscarry. "All his tricks founder." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

foundering n 1: (of a ship) sinking [syn: foundering, going under]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

29 Moby Thesaurus words for "foundering": collapsing, deciduous, declining, declivitous, decurrent, descendant, descending, down, down-reaching, downcoming, downfalling, downgoing, downhill, downsinking, downward, drooping, dropping, falling, on the descendant, on the downgrade, plummeting, plunging, sagging, setting, sinking, submerging, subsiding, tottering, tumbledown