FOUNDER

founder, beginner, founding father, father

(noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution; “George Washington is the father of his country”

founder

(noun) a worker who makes metal castings

laminitis, founder

(noun) inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse

founder

(verb) stumble and nearly fall; “the horses foundered”

collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder

(verb) break down, literally or metaphorically; “The wall collapsed”; “The business collapsed”; “The dam broke”; “The roof collapsed”; “The wall gave in”; “The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice”

founder

(verb) sink below the surface

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

founder

One who founds or establishes (especially said of a company, project, organisation, state)

(genetics) Someone for whose parents one has no data.

Antonyms

• (one who founds): ruiner

Etymology 2

Noun

founder (plural founders)

The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.

One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.

Etymology 3

Noun

founder (plural founders)

(veterinary medicine) A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.

Verb

founder (third-person singular simple present founders, present participle foundering, simple past and past participle foundered)

(intransitive) Of a ship, to fill with water and sink.

(intransitive) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.

(intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.

(transitive, archaic, nautical) To cause to fill and sink, as a ship.

(transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.

Usage notes

Frequently confused with flounder. Both may be applied to the same situation, the difference is the severity of the action: floundering (struggling to maintain position) comes first, followed by foundering (losing it by falling, sinking or failing).

Anagrams

• Neudorf, fonduer, refound

Source: Wiktionary

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Found"er, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. fondeor, F. fondateur, L. fundator.]

Definition: One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.

Found"er, n. Etym: [From Found to cast.]

Definition: One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types. Fonder's dust. Same as Facing, 4.

– Founder's sand, a kind of sand suitable for purposes of molding.

Found"er, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Foundered; p. pr. & vb. n. Foundering.] Etym: [OF. fondrer to fall in, cf. F. s'effondrer, fr. fond bottom, L. fundus. See Found to establish.]

1. (Naut.)

Definition: To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.

2. To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse. For which his horse fearé gan to turn, And leep aside, and foundrede as he leep. Chaucer.

3. To fail; to miscarry. "All his tricks founder." Shak.

Found"er, v. t.

Definition: To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.

Found"er, n. (Far.) (a) A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh. (b) An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder. James White.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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