Entry Word: found

Function: verb

Meaning: to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of <John Harvard did not actually found the university that now bears his name>

Synonyms constitute, establish, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, institute, introduce, launch, pioneer, set up, start

Related Words author, father, originate; create, invent, produce; construct, erect, put up; develop, enlarge, expand; endow, finance, fund, subsidize; arrange, organize, systematize

Near Antonyms abolish, annihilate, annul, nullify; end, finish, stop, terminate

Antonyms close (down), phase out, shut (up)