foundering (verb)

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• Founder — may refer to: * Founder (noun) With respect to a settlement, organization, company or enterprise, the person who started or founded (as if forging steel) it. * Founder (noun) A metalworker operating a foundry. * Foundering (verb) – Sinking, used… …   Wikipedia

• The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" — Infobox Book | name = The Boats of Glen Carrig title orig = translator = image caption = dust jacket of The Boats of Glen Carrig author = William Hope Hodgson illustrator = cover artist = country = United Kingdom language = English series = genre …   Wikipedia

• founder — I. noun Etymology: 4found Date: 14th century one that founds or establishes II. verb (foundered; foundering) Etymology: Middle English foundren to fall to the ground, sink, from Anglo French fondrer, alteration of fondre, from Latin fundere to… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• founder — ▪ I. founder found‧er 1 [ˈfaʊndə ǁ ər] noun [countable] ORGANIZATIONS a person who starts a new company or organization: • The company s founder and chairman, Charles Munch, has resigned.   [m0] ▪ II. founder founder 2 verb [intransitive] …   Financial and business terms

• founder — [[t]fa͟ʊndə(r)[/t]] ♦♦♦ founders, foundering, foundered 1) N COUNT: usu with poss The founder of an institution, organization, or building is the person who got it started or caused it to be built, often by providing the necessary money. He was… …   English dictionary

• shipwreck — I. noun Etymology: alteration of earlier shipwrack, from Middle English schipwrak, from Old English scipwræc, from scip ship + wræc something driven by the sea more at wrack Date: 12th century 1. a wrecked ship or its parts 2. the destruction or… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• founder — 1. noun a) One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom something originates; one who endows. The term founder was applied in the British iron industry long afterwards to the ironworker in charge of …   Wiktionary

• collapse — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. break down, fail; cave or fall in. n. prostration, dejection, breakdown, exhaustion; downfall, ruin; cave in. See failure, impotence, contraction, deterioration, insanity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn.… …   English dictionary for students

• wreck — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. destruction, ruin, undoing; accident, collision, crack up, smash up, crash; shipwreck; derelict; ruined person, human wreckage; breakup; ruins, demolition, wreckage, junk. v. t. smash, crash, crack up …   English dictionary for students

• founder — I UK [ˈfaʊndə(r)] / US [ˈfaʊndər] noun [countable] Word forms founder : singular founder plural founders * someone who starts a school, organization, business, or community one of the original founders of the Communist party in Britain II UK… …   English dictionary

• ship|wreck — «SHIHP REHK», noun, verb. –n. 1. the destruction or loss of a ship by foundering, by striking a rock or shoal, etc.: »Only two people were saved from the shipwreck. 2. a wrecked ship or what remains of it; wreckage. 3. Figurative. a total loss or …   Useful english dictionary