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[ˈfaʊndə], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a person who manufactures articles of cast metal; the owner or operator of a foundry
(e.g: an iron founder)
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Middle English: probably from Old French fondeur, from fondre (see found)
[ˈfaʊndə], (Noun)
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- a person who establishes an institution or settlement
(e.g: he was the founder of modern Costa Rica)
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[ˈfaʊndə], (Verb)
Definitions:
- (of a ship) fill with water and sink
(e.g: six drowned when the yacht foundered off the Cornish coast)
- (of a horse or its rider) stumble or fall from exhaustion, lameness, etc.
(e.g: some of their horses foundered and damaged themselves in the stones of the riverbed)
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Middle English (in the sense ‘knock to the ground’): from Old French fondrer, esfondrer ‘submerge, collapse’, based on Latin fundus ‘bottom, base’
[ˈfaʊndə], (Noun)
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- laminitis in horses, ponies, or other hoofed animals
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Middle English (in the sense ‘knock to the ground’): from Old French fondrer, esfondrer ‘submerge, collapse’, based on Latin fundus ‘bottom, base’
[ˈfaʊndə], (Verb)
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- make (someone) very cold
(e.g: it would founder you out there)
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mid 16th century: from founder, influenced by obsolete found ‘to chill or numb with cold’
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