foundering in English

verb

1

(of a ship) fill with water and sink.

six drowned when the yacht foundered off the Florida coast

synonyms: sink, go to the bottom, go down, be lost at sea

verb

sink, go to the bottom, go down, be lost at sea
fail, be unsuccessful, not succeed, fall flat, fall through, collapse, backfire, meet with disaster, come to nothing, come to naught, flatline, flop, bomb
stumble, trip, trip up, lose one's balance, lose/miss one's footing, slip, stagger, lurch, totter, fall, tumble, topple, sprawl, collapse
flop, fall flat, fall through
give, fall in, give way, collapse, break, cave in

Use "foundering" in a sentence

1. All the armour is foundering in the Channel.

2. Density-driven Crustal foundering leading to surface renewal occurs repeatedly throughout the life of a lava lake

3. Antonyms for Accomplishing include failing, flopping, flunking, foundering, underperforming, blundering, crashing, falling, floundering and folding

4. There are a number of things that can be done and which, when applied, can help a marriage that is foundering.

5. Synonyms for Beaching include landing, foundering, grounding, shipwrecking, wrecking, running aground, coming to rest, reaching the shore, running ashore and running on the rocks

6. Then, despite the raging tempest, Wasp lowered a boat, at 00:16, and brought the remaining four men aboard from the foundering 152 ft (46 m) schooner.

7. Bamboozled Damon Wayans Savion Glover Jada Pinkett Smith (2000) A Harvard-educated black man (Damon Wayans), the only minority representative at a foundering TV network, must create a …

8. Aslantwise - collapsing - descendant - descending - downcoming - downstairs - downstream - downstreet - falling-off - foundering - plummeting - slantingly - submerging - tumbledown 11 letter words declivitous - downfalling - downsinking - slaunchways 12 letter words down-reaching 14 letter words on the downgrade 15 letter words on the descendant

9. Alkalic volcanics associated with abrupt facies changes across the ancient shelf break, intervals of slope debris breccia deposits, and distal turbidite flows suggest the margin was characterized by intervals of volcanism, basin foundering, and platform flooding.

10. Relations with Tang also saw improvement during Hyoso's reign following the diplomatic disintegration that followed in the wake of the wars of unification during the 660s and 670s and the foundering of the Tang-Silla alliance.