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Founder   /fˈaʊndər/   Listen
Founder

noun
1.
Inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse.  Synonym: laminitis.
2.
A person who founds or establishes some institution.  Synonyms: beginner, father, founding father.
3.
A worker who makes metal castings.
verb
(past & past part. foundered; pres. part. foundering)
1.
Fail utterly; collapse.  Synonyms: fall flat, fall through, flop.
2.
Sink below the surface.
3.
Break down, literally or metaphorically.  Synonyms: break, cave in, collapse, fall in, give, give way.  "The business collapsed" , "The dam broke" , "The roof collapsed" , "The wall gave in" , "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice"
4.
Stumble and nearly fall.


Found

adjective
1.
Come upon unexpectedly or after searching.  "The lost-and-found department"  Antonym: lost.



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"Founder" Quotes from Famous Books



... legend on it—"The Burroughs Home." I felt like going in and claiming its hospitality—after our rough experience on the Sound its look and its name were especially inviting. Some descendant of Captain Stephen Burroughs was probably its founder. ...
— My Boyhood • John Burroughs
... The founder of this institution commenced, many years ago, with little capital, to build up a business in the treatment of chronic diseases and devoted himself diligently to that end. His reputation for skill in his chosen field of practice gradually extended until, to-day, his fame and that of the World's ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce
... we have the names of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury; Edward Coke, Lord Chief Justice; John Caius, the founder of Caius College, Cambridge; and Samuel Clarke, divine and metaphysician; and, indeed, a very considerable ...
— George Borrow and His Circle - Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of - Borrow And His Friends • Clement King Shorter
... against all the lower faiths inspired by the claim of Christianity to a monopoly of religious truth—a claim nowise set up by its founder—has led to extreme injustice toward the so-called heathen religions. Little effort has been made to distinguish between their good and evil tendencies, or even to understand them. I do not know of a single instance on this continent of a ...
— American Hero-Myths - A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent • Daniel G. Brinton
... (1738-1791), founder of a Scottish religious sect known as the Buchanites, was the daughter of John Simpson, proprietor of an inn near Banff. Having quarrelled with her husband, Robert Buchan, a potter of Greenock, she settled with her children in Glasgow, where she was deeply impressed by a sermon preached ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 - "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" • Various


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