0 past simple and past participle of founder --
1 (especially of a boat) to fill with water and sink: --
Baldwin was well aware that tariff reform had foundered before 1914 on the charge of being a tax on working-class food and that this charge would be repeated.
Successive population projections in this country, like many other sociological predictions, have often foundered in the past because of a failure to anticipate the gap between intentions and events.
In the past such innovative schemes as night-sitter services and incontinence laundry services have foundered because of a perceived lack of demand, when lack of publicitiy was the culprit.
This article will make clear the heterogeneity and complexity of this worldview, one of the inherent reasons for the crisis of confidence in which it foundered.
Old forms of regulation (notably through public ownership) foundered on problems of both economic efficiency and public accountability.
His overture through the normal channels foundered.
It foundered on self-interest and cruel lack of interest, and seems to have been characterized by nothing more admirable than intellectual arrogance in the face of real suffering.
When the project foundered a year later, he made the best of a bad thing by writing a history of the failed expedition.
