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What (who) is Flounder - definition
GROUP OF FISH SPECIES
Flounders; Flounder (fish); Baked Flounder; Baked flounder
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![[[Flowery flounder]], ''Bothus mancus'', <br />Bahía de la Chiva, at [[Hawaii]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Flounder hawaii.jpg?width=200 "[[Flowery flounder]], ''Bothus mancus'', <br />Bahía de la Chiva, at [[Hawaii]]")
flounder
(flounders, floundering, floundered)
1.
If something is floundering, it has many problems and may soon fail completely.
What a pity that his career was left to flounder...
The economy was floundering.
= founder
VERB: V, V
2.
If you say that someone is floundering, you are criticizing them for not making decisions or for not knowing what to say or do.
Right now, you've got a president who's floundering, trying to find some way to get his campaign jump-started...
I know that you're floundering around, trying to grasp at any straw.
= dither
VERB: V, V around [disapproval]
3.
If you flounder in water or mud, you move in an uncontrolled way, trying not to sink.
Three men were floundering about in the water.
VERB: V adv/prep, also V
Flounder
·noun A tool used in crimping boot fronts.
II. Flounder ·noun The act of Floundering.
III. Flounder ·noun A flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, of many species.
IV. Flounder ·vi To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to Flounce.
flounder
I. v. n.
Struggle (as an animal in the mire), toss, tumble, wallow, flounce, toss about.
II. n.
Flowk, fluke, turbot (Pleuronectes or Platessa flesus).
Wikipedia
Flounder
Flounders are a group of flatfish species. They are demersal fish, found at the bottom of oceans around the world; some species will also enter estuaries.
Examples of use of Flounder
1. The source concludes that markets worldwide will continue to flounder.
2. Lawmakers cut some deals to pass the measure, including language that will extend a 10–year rebuilding plan for summer flounder in the Northeast to 13 years, which will allow recreational and commercial fishermen to catch more flounder.
3. Yet church models don‘t always transfer to other situations, and some churches do flounder.
4. The football club began to flounder – there was no longer enough cash to pay the players.
5. If they hobble him sufficiently, he may flounder, and Reid can step up.