Usually means: Sinking or failing completely, disastrously.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. foundering: Merriam-Webster
  2. foundering: Collins English Dictionary
  3. foundering: Vocabulary.com
  4. Foundering, foundering: Wordnik
  5. foundering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. foundering: Wiktionary
  7. Foundering, foundering: Dictionary.com
  8. foundering: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Foundering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. foundering: Rhymezone
  11. Foundering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. foundering: FreeDictionary.org
  13. foundering: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. foundering: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. foundering: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. foundering: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. foundering: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. foundering: Medical dictionary

(Note: See founder as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (foundering)

noun:  The act by which a vessel founders.

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