Fonder vs. Founder — What's the Difference?

Fonder is a surname.

A person who manufactures articles of cast metal; the owner or operator of a foundry

Having a strong liking, inclination, or affection

A person who establishes an institution or settlement

Affectionate; tender

Laminitis in horses, ponies, or other hoofed animals.

Immoderately affectionate or indulgent; doting

(of a ship) fill with water and sink

Cherished; dear

(of a horse or its rider) stumble or fall from exhaustion, lameness, etc.

(Archaic) Naively credulous or foolish.

Make (someone) very cold

To sink below the surface of the water

To cave in; sink

To fail utterly; collapse

To stumble, especially to stumble and go lame. Used of horses.

To become ill from overeating. Used of livestock.

To be afflicted with laminitis. Used of horses.

To cause to founder

See laminitis.

One who establishes something or formulates the basis for something

One who founds or establishes (especially said of a company, project, organisation, state).

(genetics) Someone for whose parents one has no data.

The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.

One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.

(veterinary medicine) A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.

To flood with water and sink.

(intransitive) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.

(intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.

To cause to flood and sink, as a ship.

(transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.

One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.

One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types.

A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh.

To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.

To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.

To fail; to miscarry.

To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.

Inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse

A person who founds or establishes some institution;

A worker who makes metal castings

Fail utterly; collapse;

Sink below the surface

Break down, literally or metaphorically;

Stumble and nearly fall;