founder

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  1. intransitive verb To sink below the surface of the water: The ship struck a reef and foundered.
  2. intransitive verb To cave in; sink: The platform swayed and then foundered.
  3. intransitive verb To fail utterly; collapse: a marriage that soon foundered.
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  • With Yahoo announcing Jerry Yang and the myth of the founder It is one of the most heartwarming narratives of Silicon Valley - the founder is abused and evicted by the suits and then returns triumphant. —  Gawker
  • Serial entrepreneur Shawn Fanning, probably best known as the founder of early file sharing site Napster, recently changed his relationship status on Facebook from "single" to "in a relationship with Jennifer Leigh." —  Gawker: Valleywag
  • Go2Web20 blog written by co-founder Orli Yakuel (the other founder is Eyal Shahar), and it is integrated with Google Friend Connect. —  TechCrunch
  • Yet nowhere is Arafat described as a founder of a terrorist organization, nor is there any mention of his connection to terror acts.
  • Foster is best known as the founder of the Negro Professional Baseball League, as well as a pitcher. —  Chronicle-Telegram
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founder:   founders ·  foundered ·  foundering
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English foundren, to sink to the ground, from Old French fondrer, from Vulgar Latin *funderāre, from *fundus, *funder-, bottom, from Latin fundus, fund-.

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  1. from Middle English founder, foundour, fondoure, from Old French fondeor, fondour, fundour, fondeur (modern F. fondateur = Provencal fundator, fondador = Spanish Portuguese fundador = Italian fondatore), from Latinfundator, a founder, from fundare, found: see found.
  2. from Old French fondeur, French fondeur = Spanish Portuguese fundidor = Italian funditore, from Middle Latin fundator, *funditor (Latin fusor), from Latin fundere, past participle fusus, pour, found: see found.
  3. from Middle English foundren, founder (as a horse), transitive cast down, destroy, from Old French fondrer, in comp. afondrer, affondrer, sink, founder, go to the bottom, and effondrer, sink, founder, etc., French effondrer, give way, fall in, transitive dig deep (cf. fondriere, French fondrière, a pit, gully, mire, bog), variant of fonder, fall, from Old French fond, from Latin fundus, bottom: see found and fund.
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