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foundering

foundering

English

Verb

foundering

  1. present participle of founder

Noun

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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