Definitions for flounders

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flounders floun·der

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IPA: /ˈflaʊn dər/

Flounders is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 543 anagrams from letters in flounders (deflnorsu).

Definitions for flounders

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 flounders

1570-80; perhaps blend of flounce¹ and founder²

Examples for flounders

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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