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Founder   /fˈaʊndər/   Listen
Founder

noun
1.
Inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse.  Synonym: laminitis.
2.
A person who founds or establishes some institution.  Synonyms: beginner, father, founding father.
3.
A worker who makes metal castings.
verb
(past & past part. foundered; pres. part. foundering)
1.
Fail utterly; collapse.  Synonyms: fall flat, fall through, flop.
2.
Sink below the surface.
3.
Break down, literally or metaphorically.  Synonyms: break, cave in, collapse, fall in, give, give way.  "The business collapsed" , "The dam broke" , "The roof collapsed" , "The wall gave in" , "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice"
4.
Stumble and nearly fall.


Found

adjective
1.
Come upon unexpectedly or after searching.  "The lost-and-found department"



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"Founder" Quotes from Famous Books



... obligations along these lines and is seeking to render the fullest social service. Emile de Laveleye, the Belgian economist, says, "If Christianity were taught and understood conformably to the spirit of its founder, the existing social organism could ...
— Home Missions In Action • Edith H. Allen
... lies Rollo, the first duke, the founder and father of Normandy, of which he was at first the terror and the scourge, but afterwards the restorer. Baptised in 912 by Francon, archbishop of Rouen, and died in 917[5]. His remains had formerly ...
— Rouen, It's History and Monuments - A Guide to Strangers • Theodore Licquet
... increased by the carelessness of the Americans, who, during the Federal war, used to load their cannon cigar in mouth. But Barbicane had set his heart on succeeding, and did not mean to founder in port; he therefore chose his best workmen, made them work under his superintendence, and by dint of prudence and precautions he managed to put all the chances of success ...
— The Moon-Voyage • Jules Verne
... same way with Callimachus. If one may judge from the few fragments extant, chiefly in Stobaeus, his poetry was simpler and more dignified than that of the Alexandrian school, of which he may be called the founder. He was also one of the earliest commentators on Homer, the celebrated Zenodotus being ...
— Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology • J. W. Mackail
... height to which you aspire? To dominate men of mind by the power of capital and superiority of intellect? Do you think that you will always have skill enough to keep afloat between the two capes, which have seen the life of elegance so often founder between the cheap restaurant and the ...
— Mercadet - A Comedy In Three Acts • Honore De Balzac


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