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foundered

adjective as in high and dry

adverb as in aground

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And then it foundered for a while and someone else picked it up.

Savile allegedly helped to mediate between Charles and Diana as their marriage foundered.

After the war this youthful sense of adventure foundered in struggle and disappointment, which Heller projected back onto the war.

In 1972, Libya, Egypt, and Syria announce a “Federation of Arab Republics” that foundered after disagreements among the members.

As DreamWorks foundered, the animation division had to be split from live-action into a separate company.

The old constitution had foundered, sweeping away in its ruin the order and discipline of the royal army.

So that there were some who believed it more than likely that the yacht Eagle had foundered, with only one man to handle her.

Fortunately, the hatch had been shut, and the deluge of water had not gone into the cabin, or the boat must have foundered.

The collapsible boats A and B appear to have floated off the ship at the time she foundered.

Here were Colorado Jim and the pards on foundered horses, pursuing a rapid individual who was escaping only too easily.

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On this page you'll find 22 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to foundered, such as: aground, deserted, marooned, shipwrecked, stranded, and stuck.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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