The business foundered due to poor management. He is the founder of a successful tech company.
由于管理不善，企业失败了。他是一家成功科技公司的创始人。
Choose the synonym for “founder” as it is used in this sentence: “The company began to founder after losing its biggest client.”
B — struggle. “founder” means v. To fail; sink; establish
Without steady funding, the once-promising project began to ______ and fail.
B — founder. “founder” means v. To fail; sink; establish
founder — v. To fail; sink; establish. In Chinese: 失败，沉没.
founder is pronounced /ˈfaʊndər/. It breaks into 2 syllables: found · er.
The business foundered due to poor management. He is the founder of a successful tech company. (由于管理不善，企业失败了。他是一家成功科技公司的创始人。)
v. fail, collapse, sink, n. originator — all close in meaning to founder (v. To fail; sink; establish).
Yes. founder appears on the iSEE Vocab Upper list, which covers 804 words for the ISEE and SSAT.
found (foundation) + er → fail, sink (as in a ship sinking).