flounder
verb [I] /ˈflaʊn.dər/
/-dɚ/ Definition
› to experience great difficulties or be completely unable to decide what to do or say next: He lost the next page of his speech and floundered (about/around) for a few seconds. Although his business was a success, his marriage was floundering. In 1986 Richardson resigned as chairman, leaving the company floundering.Experiencing difficulties
(Definition of flounder verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- be (caught) between a rock and a hard place idiom
- be climbing the walls idiom
- be for the high jump idiom
- be in the soup idiom
- be riding for a fall idiom
- be up against it idiom
- be/come up against a brick wall idiom
- be/get bogged down phrasal verb
- beleaguered adjective
- difficulty noun
- have a thin time (of it) idiom
- have fun and games idiom
- have your back to/against the wall idiom
- in a stew idiom
- it never rains but it pours idiom
- pushed adjective
- rocky road idiom
- stranded adjective
- stuck adjective
- the heat is on idiom
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