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foundered
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foundered
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.]
(Naut.) To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.
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To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
For which his horse fear['e] gan to turn, And leep aside, and foundrede as he leep.
--Chaucer. To fail; to miscarry. ``All his tricks founder.''
--Shak.
Wiktionary
foundered
vb. (en-past of: founder)
Usage examples of "foundered".
Europe and America, however, deism eventually foundered and it did so because it fell between two stools.
I remember, the day before she foundered, he told me she was in latitude forty, and Easter Island bearing due north.