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verb

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

Founder v. i. (past & past part. foundered; pres. part. foundering)

(Naut.) To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.

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."

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

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Foundering" Quotes from Famous Books

... the footlights the beset man darted, and like a desperate swimmer plunging from a foundering bark into a stormy sea he leaped far out and projected himself, a living catapult, along the middle aisle. He struck the tall yellow woman as the irresistible force strikes the supposedly immovable ...

— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb

... I knows the craft well enough, and I knows the roads, too; there'll be no end of foundering against the breakers to find ...

— Varney the Vampire - Or the Feast of Blood • Thomas Preskett Prest

... through the passage in the reef. As we got clear of the land, it required all Owen's skill to steer the boat amid the fearful seas, which threatened every instant to engulf her. Four hands continued baling, without stopping; and even these could scarcely keep the boat from foundering. On, on we flew. Night came on, still the gale did not abate. Owen's countenance, as the darkness closed around us, looked grim and firm; but there was a look of horror (it was not common fear) in his eye which I can ...

— Tales of the Sea - And of our Jack Tars • W.H.G. Kingston

... The great prosperity, the honor of the house, everything was foundering in a moment. Even her daughter might escape from her, and follow the infamous husband whom she adored in spite of his faults—perhaps because of his very faults—and might drag on a weary existence in a strange land, ...

— Serge Panine, Complete • Georges Ohnet

... escaped broaching to and foundering in that wild gale will always be a wonder to me, for the boat, although she did not ship much water, seemed so deadly sluggish at times that looking astern made my flesh creep. All that night we went tearing along, and glad enough we were when day broke, and we ...

— The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton - 1902 • Louis Becke

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