foundering
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
foundering
- present participle and gerund of founder
Noun[edit]
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.