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Definition

to fail or break-down

or:

to physically sink below the surface or fall

A more common meaning refers to someone who establishes or starts something—such as the founder of the University.

A less common meaning refers to someone who manufactures things made from cast metal.

The project foundered

foundered = failed

The ship foundered in the storm.
The strategy foundered with the accident and associated publicity.

foundered = failed

The money ran out, another investment foundered, the loan came due, and Louie had to turn over his keys.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

foundered = failed

They are off our shore, half foundered — they will sink if they do not land!
Madeline Miller -- Circe

foundered = sunk

The air here was dark too, and the creepers dropped their ropes like the rigging of foundered ships.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies

foundered = sunken

She made little boats out of birch-bark, and freighted them with snailshells, and sent out more ventures on the mighty deep than any merchant in New England; but the larger part of them foundered near the shore.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

foundered = sank

We saw your ship founder and allowed you to come to our island, though usually it is closed to mortals.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

founder = start to sink

...reading the names of vessels that had long ago foundered at sea or rotted at the wharves,
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

foundered = failed; or sank

The night was really terrible; it would be a miracle if the craft did not founder.
Jules Verne -- Around The World In Eighty Days

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