Definition of Floundering

1. Verb. (present participle of flounder) ¹

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Definition of Floundering

1. flounder [v] - See also: flounder

Lexicographical Neighbors of Floundering

floud
flounce
flounced
flounces
flouncier
flounciest
flouncily
flouncing
flouncingly
flouncings
flouncy
flounder
floundered
flounderer
flounderers
floundering (current term)
flounderingly
flounderlike
flounders
flour
flour beetle
flour bin
flour corn
flour gold
flour mill
flour treatment agent
flour treatment agents
flour weevil
floured
flourier

Literary usage of Floundering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Handy Book of Curious Information: Comprising Strange Happenings in the by William Shepard Walsh (1913)
"... lands a mighty blow upon the cheek of Euryalus and knocks him senseless, so that he lies floundering on earth— But brave ..."

2. The History of Irish Periodical Literature: From the End of the 17th to the by Richard Robert Madden (1867)
"... and was found by the assistants of the establishment floundering in a bath amidst a confused mass of chairs and tables, the fragments of the feast, ..."

3. A smaller Hindustani and English dictionary by DUNCAN. FORBES (1861)
"A. pechan, wallowing, rolling, floundering ... f. act of rolling, weltering, wallowing, floundering, p. gham, ..."

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