Definitions for flounder

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flounder floun·der

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IPA: /ˈflaʊn dər/

Flounder is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 282 anagrams from letters in flounder (deflnoru).

Definitions for flounder

noun

1. a European, marine flatfish, Platichthys flesus, used for food.
2. any of numerous similar or closely related non-European flatfishes.
3. any flatfish other than soles.

verb (used without object)

1. to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.):
2. to struggle clumsily or helplessly:

Origin of flounder

1570-80; perhaps blend of flounce¹ and founder²

Examples for flounder

It would be very pretty if it were otherwise, but that's how we flounder.

Why did Obama's White House flounder in its initial response to the economic crisis?

What we've done so far, you might best describe as flounder.

Instead, Bayou, Israel's hedge-fund group, continued to flounder and the deception only grew.

China may flounder on the soccer field, but the country is in the grip of a mad World Cup fever.

I have floundered unawares into the pitfall, and now I must flounder out.

Let dear Aristide flounder about; this only moulds young people.

Only when she came to describe Bim and to tell of what he said, did she flounder.

And with his head still turned, Andrew felt a shock and flounder.

If there was a sump-hole in sight, that horse was sure to flounder into it.