1 to struggle to know what to say or do or how to continue with sth:
[V] His abrupt change of subject left her floundering helplessly. [also Vspeech]
2 [V] to have a lot of problems and to be in danger of failing completely:
At that time the industry was floundering. * The new democracy there continues to flounder.
3 [V] [usually +adv./prep.] to struggle to move or get somewhere in water, mud, etc:
She was floundering around in the deep end of the swimming pool. * A man came floundering through the snow towards us.
noun (plural flounder or flounders) a small flat sea fish that is used for food
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for flounder is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is flounder a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, flounder is tagged as verb.
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