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foundering 音标拼音: [f'ɑʊndɚɪŋ] 陷落 陷落 foundering n 1: ( of a ship) sinking [ synonym: { foundering}, { going under}] Founder \ Found" er\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Foundered}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Foundering}.] [ OF. fondrer to fall in, cf. F. s' effondrer, fr. fond bottom, L. fundus. See { Found} to establish.] 1. ( Naut.) To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse. [ 1913 Webster] For which his horse fear[' e] gan to turn, And leep aside, and foundrede as he leep. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To fail; to miscarry. " All his tricks founder." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 29 Moby Thesaurus words for " foundering": collapsing, deciduous, declining, declivitous, decurrent, descendant, descending, down, down- reaching, downcoming, downfalling, downgoing, downhill, downsinking, downward, drooping, dropping, falling, on the descendant, on the downgrade, plummeting, plunging, sagging, setting, sinking, submerging, subsiding, tottering, tumbledown
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