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(of a ship) sinking
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foundering
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. To fall; to ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act by which a vessel founders. vb. (present participle of founder English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (of a ship) sinking [syn: going under ]
Usage examples of foundering.
The problem the United States faces today is that all of these elements of containment are foundering.
It did nothing for her fears to see the other old families foundering as hungry young merchants moved into Bingtown, buying up old holdings and changing the ways things had always been done.
The order was foundering, and its chances of gaining control over the Races were diminishing daily.
Its economy is foundering, with a growth rate of 2 percent and unemployment running at close to 30 percent.
Although perhaps the great dead cold had started to settle in even earlier, that first day of the new world, while they were driving off across foundering Brigantine, the water al-ready up over the hubcaps of the Toyota, and he had heard Toby barking frantically somewhere behind them.
Before rescuers could arrive, the cymek ships closed in, scooping up a dozen of the foundering evacuation pods like hyenas stealing morsels of meat.
Could nineteen men, unarmed, scantly provided with food and water, crowded to the point of foundering in a ship's boat, make a voyage of full twelve hundred leagues?