Foundered
[faʊndəd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Founder
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Examples
- Prendergast threw us over a chart, told us that we were shipwrecked mariners whose ship had foundered in Lat. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- On the 16th, he was parted from us by a storm; I heard since my return, that his ship foundered, and none escaped but one cabin boy. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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