founderous

[ foun-der-uhs ]

adjective

1. likely to cause foundering; miry; swampy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of founderous¹

First recorded in 1760–70; founder ² + -ous

Example Sentences

But the three leagues turned out to be more nearly five, while the road was so founderous that we had again and again to quit it.

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In fact, the longer I considered our position--and as we pounded along, now splashing through a founderous hollow, now stumbling as we wound over a stony shoulder, I had ample time to reflect upon it--the greater seemed the difficulties before us.

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In those days of filthy streets, and founderous sloughy roads, the great went ever on horseback, if it were but to a house two doors distant.

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I have travelled through the negotiation,—and a sad, founderous road it is.

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Over such ground, founderous and scored knee-deep with ruts, it was plain that no wheeled carriage could move at speed; and the pursuers had this to cheer them.

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