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Meaning flounder meaning

What does flounder mean?

flounder

— verb (= stagger) walk with great difficulty He staggered along in the heavy snow — verb behave awkwardly; have difficulties She is floundering in college — noun any of various European and non-European marine flatfish — noun flesh of any of various American and European flatfish

Synonyms flounder synonyms

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flounder English » English

flatfish wallow stagger sole roll struggle roll around falter blunder plaice waver totter stumble splash around reel lurch hesitate founder dab careen bumble writhe wriggle wobble welter wallop vacillate turbot tergiversate teeter sway swag strive stir squirm squelch shillyshally sand dab rough flounder right-eye flounder reach push puddle plie rouge placie muddle make mistakes long-jaw flounder lemon sole labour

Topics flounder topics

What do people use flounder to talk about?
Universe, creation Animal Types of animals

Fish

Conjugation flounder conjugation

How do you conjugate flounder?

flounder · verb

Examples flounder examples

How do I use flounder in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

I wouldn't like us to flounder in this dung.
Not even a great white flounder.
From now on. your name is Flounder.
Flounder?
Now finish it, Flounder.
Flounder's bringing his girlfriend up for the weekend.
Come on, Flounder.
My nose tells me if we turn and run, we'll flounder.
That's my flounder.
That is my flounder.
One flounder.
Sure, those old S-boats, they just gasp and flounder along.
Marvin, you ordered the flounder.
But I knew that he'd get up there and flounder around with his expensive haircuts and hairdos and clothes.
But just in time, Nick turned around, gave him the old one-two and knocked Stinky colder than an ice flounder.
Make a mistake, act irresolutely, and you flounder.
Lower than the belly of a flounder in the bottom of a sewer, in the basement of a glue factory!
From now on, your name is Flounder.
Flounder, I am appointing you pledge representative to the social committee.
FLOUNDER: Please, I'm gonna get in trouble!
FLOUNDER: I hear Dickinson girls are fast.
FLOUNDER: Oh, my God!
Come on. Flounder.
You'd better listen to him, Flounder.
I'll fillet thee like a flounder!
You'll flounder.
Fan mail from some flounder?
You see, there's this certain flounder and they won't deliver it to my side of the street.
Yeah, I'd like an order of supreme flounder, number 47.
You're pretending to live in a janitor's closet just to get this flounder?

News and current affairs

Will foreign governments and the International Monetary Fund extend vital finances to the new government, or will they let it flounder and drown in a tsunami of currency depreciation and inflation?
The EU will continue to flounder until it recognizes its mistakes and begins to carry out the reforms its economy needs.
If the US is unable or unwilling to run the required deficits, the global economy will flounder in a savings glut of low demand and cheap capital until another alternative emerges.
Emerging countries have fared better, but they, too, have started to flounder lately.

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