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   founder

   /ˈfaʊndə/

   verb

   • 1. (of a ship) fill with water and sink: "six drowned when the yacht foundered off the Cornish coast" Similar sinkgo to the bottomgo downbe lost at seasubmergecapsizerun agroundbe swampedinformal:go to Davy Jones's locker
   • ▪ (of a plan or undertaking) fail or break down as a result of a particular problem: "the talks foundered on the issue of reform" Similar failbe unsuccessfulnot succeedlack successfall throughfall flatbreak downabortmiscarrybe defeatedsuffer defeatbe in vainbe frustratedcollapsemisfirebackfirenot come up to scratchmeet with disastercome to griefcome to nothingcome to naughtmiss the markrun agroundgo wronggo awrygo astrayinformal:flopfizzle outflatlinecome a cropperbite the dustblow up in someone's facego down like a lead balloonOpposite succeed
   • 2. (of a horse or its rider) stumble or fall from exhaustion, lameness, etc.: "some of their horses foundered and damaged themselves in the stones of the riverbed" Similar stumbletriptrip uplose one's balancelose/miss one's footingslippitchstaggerlurchtotterfallfall downfall overfall headlongtumbletopplesprawlgo lamecollapse
   • ▪ (of a hoofed animal, especially a horse or pony) succumb to laminitis. North American

   noun

   • 1. laminitis in horses, ponies, or other hoofed animals. North American

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘knock to the ground’): from Old French fondrer, esfondrer ‘submerge, collapse’, based on Latin fundus ‘bottom, base’.

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