'Founder' definitions:
Definition of 'founder'
(from WordNet)
noun
Inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse [syn: laminitis, founder]
noun
A person who founds or establishes some institution; "George Washington is the father of his country" [syn: founder, beginner, founding father, father]
noun
A worker who makes metal castings
verb
verb
Sink below the surface
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" [syn: collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder]
verb
Stumble and nearly fall; "the horses foundered"
Definition of 'Founder'
From: GCIDE
- Founder \Found"er\, n. [From Found to cast.] One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types. [1913 Webster]
- Fonder's dust. Same as Facing, 4.
- Founder's sand, a kind of sand suitable for purposes of molding. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Founder'
From: GCIDE
- Founder \Found"er\, v. i. [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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse. [1913 Webster]
- For which his horse fear['e] gan to turn, And leep aside, and foundrede as he leep. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To fail; to miscarry. "All his tricks founder." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Founder'
From: GCIDE
- Founder \Found"er\, n. [Cf. OF. fondeor, F. fondateur, L. fundator.] One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Founder'
From: GCIDE
- Founder \Found"er\, v. t. To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Founder'
From: GCIDE
- Founder \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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'founder'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abort,
- ancestors,
- apprentice,
- architect,
- artificer,
- artist,
- author,
- be clobbered,
- be destroyed,
- be felled,
- be lost,
- be poleaxed,
- be staggered,
- be stricken,
- begetter,
- beginner,
- break down,
- builder,
- capsize,
- cave,
- cave in,
- collapse,
- come to grief,
- come to naught,
- come to nothing,
- conceiver,
- constructor,
- craftsman,
- creator,
- decline,
- designer,
- deviser,
- die,
- discoverer,
- droop,
- drown,
- effector,
- engenderer,
- engineer,
- establisher,
- executor,
- executrix,
- fail,
- fall,
- fall in,
- fall through,
- falter,
- father,
- flop,
- flop down,
- flump,
- flump down,
- framer,
- generator,
- give way,
- go down,
- go downhill,
- go lame,
- go under,
- grower,
- have a mishap,
- inaugurator,
- industrialist,
- initiator,
- instigator,
- institutor,
- introducer,
- inventor,
- journeyman,
- keel,
- keel over,
- lapse,
- lower,
- lurch,
- maker,
- manufacturer,
- master,
- master craftsman,
- miscarry,
- mother,
- organizer,
- originator,
- overset,
- overturn,
- past master,
- patriarch,
- pitchpole,
- planner,
- plop,
- plop down,
- plump,
- precursor,
- prime mover,
- producer,
- progenitor,
- raiser,
- realizer,
- run aground,
- sag,
- scuttle,
- set,
- settle,
- settle down,
- shaper,
- sink,
- sink down,
- sink like lead,
- sire,
- slip,
- slouch,
- slump,
- slump down,
- smith,
- somersault,
- stagger,
- stumble,
- submerge,
- submerse,
- subside,
- suffer a misfortune,
- swag,
- sway,
- topple,
- topple down,
- topple over,
- totter,
- trip,
- turn over,
- turn turtle,
- upset,
- upset the boat,
- wright