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Flounder

[floun-der]

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verb (used without object)

to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.

to struggle clumsily or helplessly: He floundered helplessly on the first day of his new job.

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Origin:
1570–80; perhaps blend of flounce¹ and founder²

Related forms

floun·der·ing·ly, adverb

un·floun·der·ing, adjective

Synonyms
2. falter, waver, muddle.

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Summer is more than a month away, but for commercial fishermen, the summer flounder season is already over.

It is no wonder they flounder once they reach higher ed.

Big firms with expensive lawyers can usually navigate the system, but small players flounder.

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Summer is more than a month away, but for commercial fishermen, the summer flounder season is already over.

It is no wonder they flounder once they reach higher ed.

Big firms with expensive lawyers can usually navigate the system, but small players flounder.

Like all modern flatfish, the yellowtail flounder has both eyes on one side of its head.

While polar bears flounder in the face of shrinking ice floes, another furry creature has gotten a boost from climate change.

Then there are people who need to be directed and only flounder if they're allowed to do whatever they want.

Recreational anglers face increased restrictions on flounder fishing next year because they greatly exceeded this year's quota.

Even if you master the polka, you have lost precious time and allowed your career to flounder.

Some inner-city schools flounder while others thrive despite facing similar challenges.

The underside of the flounder also eventually loses its color.

Congress has let our spacefaring capabilities flounder.

Those who rose early to take the flounder trains found big snowflakes falling and a white mantle covering their yards.

Yet despite that fillip, the weak economies may continue to flounder.

Many great communicators flounder because it becomes overbearing to keep up with the world.

Dredge flounder or sole fillets in flour and fry until crisp, about two minutes a side.

It may be cannier realpolitik to let them flounder in the polls.

When those are cooked, add a little water and slide in a tilapia or flounder filet.

Foreign students often flounder in so unstructured an academic environment.

It's pretty amusing to watch mainstream economists flounder in a sea of data with no theory to make sense of it.

Baked eggs with flounder fillets make a delicious breakfast and the dish is interesting enough to even break out for dinner.

The flounder takes on dull, spotted coloring to blend in with the rocky seafloor.

The online subscription services will flounder without cooperation from.

If flounder or sole is used, you will note that there is a line of tiny fish bones running down the center of each fillet.

But if the company continues to flounder in the smartphone market it might consider going back to making rubber boots.

Some people will fourish in one environment and flounder in another.

Using special head organs, the predators can detect even the slightest muscle twitch of a flounder buried in sand.

One of his gimmicks was to put both eyes on one side of a face, which nature had only ever done in the instance of the flounder.

I've seen people flounder a bit in graduate school because of these sorts of issues.

Fish such as flounder almost exactly match their speckled seafloor habitats.

Perch and flounder work as well as snapper, which can be.

In my view there will be further declines in the markets and then they will flounder about for a few years.

Lovely green baby bok choy formed a wreath around a center of crisped flounder treated to a pleasing jolt of chili sauce.

Jobs ought to be unwilling to see his outfit flounder out of thin air.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun, plural (especially collectively) -der, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) -ders.

a European, marine flatfish, Platichthys flesus, used for food.

any of numerous similar or closely related non-European flatfishes.

any flatfish other than soles.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Anglo-French floundre < Scandinavian; compare Norwegian flundra

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World English Dictionary

flounder¹ (ˈflaʊndə)

—vb
1.	to struggle; to move with difficulty, as in mud
2.	to behave awkwardly; make mistakes

—n
3.	the act of floundering

usage Flounder is sometimes wrongly used where founder is meant: the project foundered (not floundered) because of a lack of funds

flounder² (ˈflaʊndə)

—n , pl -der, -ders
1.	Also called: fluke a European flatfish, Platichthys flesus having a greyish-brown body covered with prickly scales: family Pleuronectidae: an important food fish
2.	(US), (Canadian) any flatfish of the families Bothidae (turbot, etc) and Pleuronectidae (plaice, halibut, sand dab, etc)

[C14: probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Old Norse flythra, Norwegian flundra]

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Word Origin & History

flounder

1590s, perhaps an alteration of founder (q.v.), influenced by Du. flodderen "to flop about," or native verbs in fl- expressing clumsy motion. Related: Floundered; floundering.

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flounder

"flatfish," c.1304, from Anglo-Fr. floundre, from O.N.Fr. flondre, from O.N. flydhra, related to M.L.G. vlundere, cognate with Gk. platys "flat, wide, broad" (see place (n.)).

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