| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To filch or steal.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To dabble, drench or moisten. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To wallow or trudge. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To shake, blink, agitate, wobble or brandish. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To falter, waver or vacillate. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To stagger, teeter or totter. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To fluctuate, oscillate or vibrate. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To heave or dangle. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To churn, stir, actuate or whisk.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Present participle conjugation of the verb flounder.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (flounder) | 1. Walk with great difficulty.[Wordnet]. 2. Behave awkwardly; have difficulties; "She is floundering in college".[Wordnet]. 3. To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce.[Websters]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: floundering, floundered, flounders, flounderer, flounderers, flounderingly and flounderedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being disturbing.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being wavering or vacillating. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being flickering or blinking. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being faltering. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being vexing or annoying. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being awkward, maladroit or embarrassing. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being staggering or doddering. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being shattering or smashing. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being floating or palpitating. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Being confusing or puzzling.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "FLOUNDERING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1503. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FLOUNDERING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Making irregular motions; struggling with violence.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of flounder. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: flounder
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Atomic Flounder | The Atomic Flounder is a fictional character on the cartoon Spongebob Squarepants. He was in the Mermaid Man & Barnical Boy 2 as a retired villain. He can blast hot radioactive beams from his mouth. SpongeBob threatened him when and when Barnacle Boy tried to help the Atomic Flounder because he had already retired from crime. The Atomic Flounder got mad and blasted Barnicle Boy, Barnicle Boy was burnt to a crisp and SpongeBob treated him. Atomic Flounder's costume is orange with a mask. (references) | ||
| Blackback flounder | Important American food fish in the winter. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Craig flounder | The pole flounder. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Gray flounder | Flounder found from North Carolina to Florida and the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Grey flounder | Flounder found from North Carolina to Florida and the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Lefteye flounder | Flatfishes with both eyes on the left side of the head. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Lefteyed flounder | Flatfishes with both eyes on the left side of the head. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Pole flounder | (Zo["o]l.), a large deep-water flounder (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus), native of the northern coasts of Europe and America, and much esteemed as a food fish; -- called also craig flounder , and pole fluke . Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Righteye flounder | Flounders with both eyes on the right side of the head. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Righteyed flounder | Flounders with both eyes on the right side of the head. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Southern flounder | Flounder of southern United States. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Southern flounder | The southern (or armless) flounders are a small family of flounders found in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters. (references) | ||
| Summer flounder | Flounder of eastern coast of North America. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| USS Flounder (SS-251) | USS Flounder (SS-251), a Gato class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the flounder, a valuable food fish, many varieties of which are found in great schools along the Atlantic coast north of Cape Cod. (references) | ||
| Water flounder | The windowpane (Pleuronectes maculatus). Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Winter flounder | 1: (Zo["o]l.) See the Note under Flounder . Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: Important American food fish in the winter. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| 3: Flesh of American flounder; important in the winter. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Yellowtail flounder | 1: American flounder having a yellowish tail. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| 2: Flesh of American flounder having a yellowish tail. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
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