verb/unˈdiɾ/
to sink, engulf; to ruin, destroy; to sink, sink down; to collapse, cave in, subside; to break down, go to pieces, fall apart
Inherited from Latin fundere, fundō, from Proto-Italic *hundō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd-. Doublet of fundir (“to cast, to melt”). Compare English found (“to cast metal”), founder (“to sink”).