founder

founder is a 7-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
2. noun. One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types.
3. intransitive verb. To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.
4. intransitive verb. To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
5. intransitive verb. To fail; to miscarry.
6. transitive verb. To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.
7. noun. A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh.
8. noun. An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder.
9. noun. a person who founds or establishes some institution

   "George Washington is the father of his country"

   Synonyms: beginner, father

10. noun. a worker who makes metal castings
11. noun. inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse

    Synonyms: laminitis

12. verb. stumble and nearly fall

    "the horses foundered"

13. verb. break down, literally or metaphorically

    "The wall collapsed"

    "The business collapsed"

    Synonyms: break, collapse, give

14. verb. sink below the surface
15. verb. fail utterly; collapse

    "The project foundered"

    Synonyms: flop

Synonyms

beginner, father, laminitis, break, collapse, give, flop

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in founder:

refound, underfo

Common word forms

founders, foundered, foundering, founderous

Words from these letters

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