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founderingverbpresent participle of founder to be unsuccessfulthe theater company foundered after its corporate funding dried up bombing, collapsing, cratering, failing, flaming out, flopping, flunking, folding, missing, striking out, tanking, washing out floundering, strugglingdeclining, sinking, skidding, slipping, slumping, waningcrashing, crumbling, miscarrying, misfiringgoing underimploding, self-destructing coming a cropper, coming to grief, coming up empty, dying on the vine, falling flat, falling on one's face, falling short, laying an egg clicking, coming off, delivering, going, going over, panning out, succeeding, working out cooking, flourishing, prospering, thrivingprevailing, triumphing, winning to fall down or in as a result of physical pressurethe twin towers started to sway and suddenly foundered buckling, caving (in), collapsing, crumpling, giving, going, going out, imploding, tumbling, yielding deflating, flattening, melting, melting downbreaking, breaking down, conking (out), crashing, dying, failing, giving out, stallingbursting, shattering, smashing, splintering, splittingcracking, crumbling, popping, snapping giving way inflating, rising, swelling |