foundering

English

Verb

foundering

1. present participle and gerund of founder

Noun

foundering (plural founderings)

1. The act by which a vessel founders.
   • 2004, Mark L. Thompson, Graveyard of the Lakes:

     It's the nature of founderings that ships have buoyancy and are afloat one second, then lose buoyancy and sink the next.

Anagrams

• refounding