foundering

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Verb

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foundering

  1. present participle and gerund of founder

Noun

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foundering (plural founderings)

  1. The act by which a vessel founders.
    • 2004, Mark L. Thompson, Graveyard of the Lakes:
      It's the nature of founderings that ships have buoyancy and are afloat one second, then lose buoyancy and sink the next.

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