Definitions
walk with great difficulty
Word origin
From Middle English flowndre, from Anglo-Norman floundre, from Old Northern French flondre, from Old Norse flyðra, from Proto-Germanic *flunþrijǭ. Cognate with Danish flynder, German Flunder, Swedish flundra.
Used in a sentence
“He gave a good speech, but floundered when audience members asked questions he could not answer well.”
“They have floundered on from blunder to blunder.”
“These epics nearly always had runaway trains, nincompoops floundering with the controls and a collapsed bridge just ahead!”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Struggle awkwardly”8 letters
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