flounderverb [ I ]
uk/ˈflaʊn.dər/us/ˈflaʊn.dɚ/to experience great difficulties or be completely unable to decide what to do or say next:
He lost the next page of his speech and floundered around/about for a few seconds.
Although his business was a success, his marriage was floundering.
Richardson resigned as chairman, leaving the company floundering.
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Experiencing difficulties
- be
- be (caught) between a rock and a hard place idiom
- be climbing the walls idiom
- be for the high jump idiom
- be/come up against a brick wall idiom
- creek
- difficulty
- embattled
- fall into sth
- frying pan
- fumble
- leg
- out of the frying pan into the fire idiom
- patch
- pickle
- pressed
- pushed
- ride
- rocky road idiom
- thin
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floundernoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˈflaʊn.dər/us/ˈflaʊn.dɚ/plural flounder or floundersa flat sea fish that can be eaten
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Sea fish
- anchovy
- barracuda
- bream
- cod
- coley
- groper
- haddock
- hake
- halibut
- herring
- ray
- remora
- salmon
- salmon trout
- sardine
- swordfish
- trout
- tuna
- turbot
- white pointer
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