foundering
English
Verb
foundering
Noun
foundering (plural founderings)
- 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.
- 2004, Mark L. Thompson, Graveyard of the Lakes