 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
foundering
noun: (of a ship) sinking [syn: {going under}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Founder \Found"er\, verb (used without an object) [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.]
1. (Naut.) 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 fear['e] gan to turn,
And leep aside, and foundrede as he leep. --Chaucer.
3. To fail; to miscarry. ''All his tricks founder.'' --Shak.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
29 Moby Thesaurus words for "foundering":
collapsing, deciduous, declining, declivitous, decurrent,
descendant, descending, down, down-reaching, downcoming,
downfalling, downgoing, downhill, downsinking, downward, drooping,
dropping, falling, on the descendant, on the downgrade, plummeting,
plunging, sagging, setting, sinking, submerging, subsiding,
tottering, tumbledown
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