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founding

verb , present participle of found

Synonyms and Antonyms of founding

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 of founding

beginning, constituting, establishing, inaugurating, initiating, innovating, instituting, introducing, launching, pioneering, planting, setting up, starting

Words Related to founding

authoring, fathering, originating

conceiving, concocting, contriving, cooking (up), creating, devising, fabricating, inventing, making up, manufacturing, producing, thinking (up)

constructing, putting up

developing, enlarging, expanding

endowing, financing, funding, subsidizing

arranging, organizing, systematizing, systemizing

refounding, reinitiating, reinstituting, relaunching

Near Antonyms of founding

abolishing, annihilating, annulling, nullifying

ending, finishing, halting, stopping, terminating

rounding (off or out), winding up, wrapping up

Antonyms of founding

closing (down), phasing out, shutting (up)

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