Foundering is valid Scrabble Word

Is foundering a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is foundering valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

10 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
19 points in WWF

Definitions for FOUNDERING in dictionary:

VERB:

FOUNDER, to become disabled
(of a ship) fill with water and sink
(of a plan or undertaking) fail or break down as a result of a particular problem
(of a horse or its rider) stumble or fall from exhaustion, lameness, etc.
(of a hoofed animal, especially a horse or pony) succumb to laminitis.
make (someone) very cold

NOUN:

a person who manufactures articles of cast metal; the owner or operator of a foundry
a person who establishes an institution or settlement
an animal, especially a fertilized female insect, that founds a new colony.
laminitis in horses, ponies, or other hoofed animals.

(of a ship) sinking

Words related to FOUNDERING

founder11 foundered14 founders12

Words that contain FOUNDERING

dumfoundering21 dumbfoundering24

How to use FOUNDERING in a sentence

He cast one glance over his shoulder, and set a pace which came near to foundering me.
His horse was about spent, if not on the point of foundering.
Then a heavy gale set in, and for many days she struggled with the tempest, whose fury was so great that for several hours she was in imminent danger of foundering.
We were not much more than a quarter of an hour out of our ship but we saw her sink, and then I understood for the first time what was meant by a ship foundering in the sea.
Lucky it was for them, that the hand of the Lord was felt so powerfully on the deep, and that the Rover had enough to do to keep his own ship from foundering.
Indeed, it was a most tremendous blow, and we were thrown into the utmost consternation from the apprehension of instantly foundering.
Duhem complains to the convention, that the vessel of state is near foundering.
All eyes were fixed upon the spot where the Chancellor lay foundering.
Here at least we have a comparatively solid platform beneath our feet, and we are relieved from the incessant dread of being carried down with a foundering vessel.
There was a brisk wind, and the vessel was soon in imminent danger of foundering.

Six months later, the Monitor met a tragic fate, foundering in a storm off Cape Hatteras, a portion of her crew going down with her.
Heaven grant that we may not be called to make like efforts, and to make them hopelessly, for a foundering ship! CHAPTER XX.
A vast empire is foundering on the hands of this incapable management.
Fear is what we need, as the ship needs wind on a rocking sea, after a storm, to prevent foundering.
If driven from either, we shall be in danger of foundering.
By this time the Old Glory showed unmistakable signs of being on the point of foundering, and the girls were told to come on deck.
In the heated condition of the little animals, this might have meant a case of foundering.
Just how much of a storm there was I cannot say, believing that it is never worth while for a passenger to leave his berth, if there is any danger of a ship foundering in a gale.
More than once it seems to be foundering, both in the equine and in the maritime senses.
Applehead yelled something, but Pink had recovered his balance and was running to save the precious horsefeed from waste, and Johnny from foundering.
They stopped for a moment to watch the sloops in the fish market loaded almost to the point of foundering with live fish.
The craft is near foundering now, and our only hope is to obtain the open deck at once.
She could sense that her rule in the crumbling and further leaning tower of Gabriele was faltering, floundering, and foundering.
Of all the heavy, swift work he had done for the safety of his crew after the foundering Dave gave only the barest sketch.
How difficult! How difficult! But why do the eyes of Corkey bulge with excitement? Oh, yes, the ship is foundering because Corkey is in the way of this great business.
It was proved that there were singularly few cases of foundering among these vessels, and that fewer lives were lost in them than in any others.
Then the gloom kept rising and rising, bringing a whirling sensation, a foundering of everything, the earth rolling into chaos, the end of the world.
The storm was severe, but not as savage as it might have been, or as the steamer had encountered on the Atlantic when she saved the sailing-yacht Blanche from foundering.

Similar words containing FOUNDER without suffix ing

founder11 founders12 cofounder15 foundered14 refounder13 cofounders16 confounder16 dumfounder17 founderous14 profounder16 refounders14 bellfounder17 confounders17 dumbfounder20 dumfounders18 typefounder20 bellfounders18 brassfounder18 dumbfounders21 dumfoundered20 typefounders21 brassfounders19 dumbfoundered23 dumfoundering21 dumbfoundering24

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