founder
The person who creates an organization or a company is known as the founder. Founder is also a verb meaning “fail miserably,” which is something a company’s founder hopes the company will never do.
As a noun, founder means “the beginner or originator of something.” You might talk about the founder of a nation, the founder of club, or the founder of a website. As a verb, founder can mean “stumble,” like when you trip and fall, but more generally it means “collapse or fall apart.” A sports team might founder by slumping on a ten-game losing streak; a ship that sinks in a bad storm can be said to have foundered at sea.
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a person who founds or establishes some institution
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cofounder
one of a group of founders
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coloniser, colonizer
someone who helps to found a colony
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foundress
a woman founder
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conceiver, mastermind, originator
someone who creates new things
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cofounder
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sink below the surface
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break down, literally or metaphorically
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abandon, give up
stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims
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burst, collapse
cause to burst
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go off, implode
burst inward
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buckle, crumple
fold or collapse
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flop
fall loosely
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break
curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
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sink, slide down, slump
fall or sink heavily
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change
undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one’s or its original nature
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abandon, give up
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fail utterly; collapse
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stumble and nearly fall
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a worker who makes metal castings
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bell founder
a person who casts metal bells
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skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker
a worker who has acquired special skills
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bell founder
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inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse
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inflammation, redness, rubor
a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat
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inflammation, redness, rubor