founder

I

n

builder, organizer, establisher, institutor; inventor, discoverer, framer, maker, designer, architect; creator, author, originator, generator, initiator, prime mover, father; producer, artist, craftsman.

II

v

1. sink, go down, go to Davy Jones' locker, swamp; run aground, split upon a rock, shipwreck, capsize; roll, toss, heave, welter, wallow, tumble about, thrash, flounce; pitch, make a plunge, take a header, lurch, reel.

2. settle, subside, decline, descend.

3. fail, not succeed, go wrong, abort, miscarry; flounder, falter, collapse, fall through, Inf. come a cropper; come to grief, meet with disaster, turn out badly, end in smoke, come to nothing, never get off the ground.

4. stumble, stagger, sprawl, trip, fall, topple down or over; break down, go lame.