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Foundering

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act by which a vessel founders.

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

  2. 2
    (of a ship) sinking wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of founder form-of, gerund, participle, present

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