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foundernoun a person who establishes a whole new field of endeavorMaria Montessori was the founder of an educational system dedicated to maximizing a child's creative potential author, begetter, creator, establisher, father, founding father, generator, inaugurator, initiator, instituter(or institutor), originator, sire cocreator, cofounderconceiver, contriver, designer, deviser, formulator, innovator, introducer, inventor, spawnerbuilder, maker, producerdeveloper, pioneer, researcher, researchistorganizer, promoterencourager, galvanizer, inspiration, inspirer disciple, follower, pupil, student, supporter founderverbto be unsuccessfulthe theater company foundered after its corporate funding dried up bomb, collapse, crater, fail, flame out, flop, flunk, fold, miss, strike out, tank, wash out flounder, struggledecline, sink, skid, slip, slump, wanecrash, crumble, miscarry, misfirego underimplode, self-destruct come a cropper, come to grief, come up empty, die on the vine, fall flat, fall on one's face, fall short, lay an egg click, come off, deliver, go, go over, pan out, succeed, work out cook, flourish, prosper, thriveprevail, triumph, win to fall down or in as a result of physical pressurethe twin towers started to sway and suddenly foundered buckle, cave (in), collapse, crumple, give, go, go out, implode, tumble, yield deflate, flatten, melt, melt downbreak, break down, conk (out), crash, die, fail, give out, stallburst, shatter, smash, splinter, splitcrack, crumble, pop, snap give way inflate, rise, swell in the 14th century |