Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to found
Participle: founded
Gerund: founding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | found |
| you | found |
| he;she;it | founds |
| we | found |
| you | found |
| they | found |
Perfect
| I | have founded |
| you | have founded |
| he;she;it | has founded |
| we | have founded |
| you | have founded |
| they | have founded |
Past
| I | founded |
| you | founded |
| he;she;it | founded |
| we | founded |
| you | founded |
| they | founded |
Pluperfect
| I | had founded |
| you | had founded |
| he;she;it | had founded |
| we | had founded |
| you | had founded |
| they | had founded |
Future
| I | will found |
| you | will found |
| he;she;it | will found |
| we | will found |
| you | will found |
| they | will found |
Future Perfect
| I | will have founded |
| you | will have founded |
| he;she;it | will have founded |
| we | will have founded |
| you | will have founded |
| they | will have founded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | found |
| you | found |
| he;she;it | found |
| we | found |
| you | found |
| they | found |
Perfect
| I | have founded |
| you | have founded |
| he;she;it | have founded |
| we | have founded |
| you | have founded |
| they | have founded |
Imperfect
| I | founded |
| you | founded |
| he;she;it | founded |
| we | founded |
| you | founded |
| they | founded |
Pluperfect
| I | had founded |
| you | had founded |
| he;she;it | had founded |
| we | had founded |
| you | had founded |
| they | had founded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would found |
| you | would found |
| he;she;it | would found |
| we | would found |
| you | would found |
| they | would found |
Perfect
| I | would have founded |
| you | would have founded |
| he;she;it | would have founded |
| we | would have founded |
| you | would have founded |
| they | would have founded |
Imperative
| you | found |
| we | Let's found |
| you | found |
Verbs conjugated like 'found'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'found'
bound,
foind,
fond,
fund,
hound,
mound,
pound,
round,
sound,
wound,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- of an object: occupy a given position permanently
- sit, situate
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "establish," c.1290, from O.Fr.
founder, from L.
fundare "to lay the bottom or foundation of something," from
fundus "bottom, foundation," from PIE
*bhud-/*bhund-.
2. From Middle English founden, from Old French founder (Modern French: fonder), from Latin fundāre. Compare fund. See: Middle English '
founden', Old French '
founder', Latin '
fundō'.
Verbs referencing "found"
Spanish
hundir, Spanish
fundir.
Sample Sentences
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[...] some wretched female referred her fall to a love of dress, than I would allow my construction of the real intent and meaning of the Sabbath to be influenced by any warning to the well-disposed, founded on his backslidings on that particular day, which might emanate from the rather doubtful authority of a murderer in Newgate.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] same themes, in connection with Shakspeare and the Musical Glasses, of which we read in the Vicar of Wakefield. Near the city, is a most splendid unfinished marble structure for the Girard College, founded by a deceased gentleman of that name and of enormous wealth, which, if completed according to the original design, will be perhaps the richest edifice of modern times. But the bequest is involved [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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In addition to these establishments, there is a Roman Catholic cathedral, dedicated to Saint Francis Xavier; and a hospital, founded by the munificence of a deceased resident, who was a member of that church. It also sends missionaries from hence among the Indian tribes.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] blew keenly. Looming in the distance, as we rode along, was another of the ancient Indian burial-places, called The Monks ’ Mound; in memory of a body of fanatics of the order of La Trappe, who founded a desolate convent there, many years ago, when there were no settlers within a thousand miles, and were all swept off by the pernicious climate: in which lamentable fatality, few rational people [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] as plainly as anybody, and on which he based a conviction that “ Mas’r wasn't a Christian; ” — a conviction, however, which he would have been very slow to express to any one else, but on which he founded many prayers, in his own simple fashion, when he was by himself in his little dormitory. Not that Tom had not his own way of speaking his mind occasionally, with something of the tact often [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] forms of dissent in America, is in any way attributable to the non-existence there of an established church: indeed, I think the temper of the people, if it admitted of such an Institution being founded amongst them, would lead them to desert it, as a matter of course, merely because it was established. But, supposing it to exist, I doubt its probable efficacy in summoning the wandering [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] which we in Europe, or even in England, are unacquainted. Dissenters resort thither in great numbers, as other people do, simply because it is a land of resort; and great settlements of them are founded, because ground can be purchased, and towns and villages reared, where there were none of the human creation before. But even the Shakers emigrated from England; our country is not unknown to Mr. [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] have been used, in unjustifiable ways, as a means of retarding our emancipation. But the question to me is, Is there not a God above all man's schemes ? May He not have over-ruled their designs, and founded for us a nation by them ?
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] their children instructed, and, so far as the writer has observed herself, or taken the testimony of teachers among them, they are remarkably intelligent and quick to learn. The results of schools, founded for them by benevolent individuals in Cincinnati, fully establish this.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)