Associations to the word «Foundering»

Wiktionary

FOUNDERING, verb. Present participle of founder
FOUNDERING, noun. The act by which a vessel founders.

Dictionary definition

FOUNDERING, noun. (of a ship) sinking.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope