floundered in English

verb

1

struggle or stagger helplessly or clumsily in water or mud.

he was floundering about in the shallow offshore waters

synonyms: struggle, thrash, flail, twist and turn, splash, stagger, stumble, reel, lurch, blunder, squirm, writhe

verb

struggle, thrash, flail, twist and turn, splash, stagger, stumble, reel, lurch, blunder, squirm, writhe
struggle, be out of one's depth, have difficulty, be confounded, be confused, scratch one's head, be flummoxed, be clueless, be foxed, be fazed, be floored, be beaten
struggle financially, be in dire straits, face financial ruin, be in difficulties, face bankruptcy/insolvency, founder
stagger

Use "floundered" in a sentence

1. 4 Auguste went to superintend the tables in the supper room while Boris floundered around below.

2. Everton, hit by injuries, also floundered in attack with Tony Cottee making little headway against the resolute Tony Adams.

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4. However, the Amazons didn't know how to sail so they floundered until they landed by the cliffs of the Scythians

5. The Steady State Theory floundered on for a few more years, being continually revised, but eventually its three proponents conceded defeat.

6. EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB The Cockalorum pondered over this for a moment, and then murmuring, "I prefer croquet," floundered away through the waving grass

7. Last night on Late Night, where the great minds of Will Ferrell and Alec Baldwin had once floundered Armlessly for an imaginary soap opera called Jacob’s Patience, Steve Carell and Justin

8. Despite mutual admiration, negotiations floundered due to Roman allegations of "Punic Faith," referring to the breach of protocols that ended the First Punic War by the Carthaginian attack on Saguntum, and a Carthaginan attack on a stranded Roman fleet.