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foundersnounpl. of founder 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 authors, begetters, creators, establishers, fathers, founding fathers, generators, inaugurators, initiators, instituters(or institutors), originators, sires cocreators(or co-creators), cofounders(or co-founders)conceivers, contrivers, designers, devisers, formulators, innovators, introducers, inventors, spawnersbuilders, makers, producersdevelopers, pioneers, researchers, researchistsorganizers, promotersencouragers, galvanizers, inspirations, inspirers disciples, followers, pupils, students, supporters foundersverbpresent tense third-person singular of founderto be unsuccessfulthe theater company foundered after its corporate funding dried up bombs, collapses, craters, fails, flames out, flops, flunks, folds, misses, strikes out, tanks, washes out flounders, strugglesdeclines, sinks, skids, slips, slumps, wanescrashes, crumbles, miscarries, misfiresgoes underimplodes, self-destructs comes a cropper, comes to grief, comes up empty, dies on the vine, falls flat, falls on one's face, falls short, lays an egg clicks, comes off, delivers, goes, goes over, pans out, succeeds, works out cooks, flourishes, prospers, thrivesprevails, triumphs, wins to fall down or in as a result of physical pressurethe twin towers started to sway and suddenly foundered buckles, caves (in), collapses, crumples, gives, goes, goes out, implodes, tumbles, yields deflates, flattens, melts, melts downbreaks, breaks down, conks (out), crashes, dies, fails, gives out, stallsbursts, shatters, smashes, splinters, splitscracks, crumbles, pops, snaps gives way inflates, rises, swells |