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founder 1 |?found?r|
noun
a person who manufactures articles of cast metal; the owner or operator of a foundry: an iron founder.
ORIGIN Middle English: probably from Old French fondeur, from fondre (see found3) .
founder 2 |?found?r|
noun
a person who establishes an institution or settlement. he was the founder of modern Costa Rica.
founder 3 |?found?r|
verb [ no obj. ]
(of a ship) fill with water and sink: six drowned when the yacht foundered off the Florida coast.
• (of a plan or undertaking) fail or break down, typically as a result of a particular problem or setback: the talks foundered on the issue of reform.
• (of a hoofed animal, esp. a horse or pony) succumb to laminitis.
noun
laminitis in horses, ponies, or other hoofed animals.
ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘knock to the ground’): from Old French fondrer, esfondrer ‘submerge, collapse,’ based on Latin fundus ‘bottom, base.’
usage: It is easy to confuse the words founder and flounder, not only because they sound similar but also because the contexts in which they are used overlap. Founder means, in its general and extended use, ‘fail or come to nothing, sink out of sight’ ( the scheme foundered because of lack of organizational backing). Flounder, on the other hand, means ‘struggle, move clumsily, be in a state of confusion’ ( new recruits floundering about in their first week).
Founder is not the word I would use in the given context.
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