Usually means: Struggle; fail; flat fish species.
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  1. flounder: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. flounder, flounder: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flounder, flounder: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flounder: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flounder: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flounder, flounder: Wordnik
  7. flounder: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flounder: Wiktionary
  9. flounder: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flounder: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flounder: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Flounder, flounder: Dictionary.com
  13. flounder (n.), flounder (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. flounder: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Flounder (Disney), Flounder (The Little Mermaid), Flounder, The Flounder: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Flounder: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. flounder: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. flounder: Rhymezone
  19. flounder: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. flounder: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. flounder: Free Dictionary
  22. flounder: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. flounder: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. flounder: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. flounder: Linda's Culinary Dictionary

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  1. flounder: Legal dictionary

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  1. flounder: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. flounder: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. flounder (v.): Cats
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  3. flounder: Idioms
  4. flounder: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. flounder, flounder: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Flounder, The Flounder: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (flounder)

▸ noun:  A European species of flatfish having dull brown colouring with reddish-brown blotches; fluke, European flounder (Platichthys flesus).
▸ noun:  (Canada, US) Any of various flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae or Bothidae.
▸ noun:  A bootmaker's tool for crimping boot fronts.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To act clumsily or confused; to struggle or be flustered.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To flop around as a fish out of water.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To make clumsy attempts to move or regain one's balance.
▸ verb:  To be in serious difficulty.

Similar:
stagger, fluke, summer flounder, flounderling, plaice, sand flounder, flounderer, bluefish, topknot, flattie, more...

Opposite:
swim, float, sail

Types:
dab, plaice, sole, halibut, turbot, grouper, sturgeon, more...

Phrases:
Winter flounder, summer flounder, yellowtail flounder, flounder around, flounder through, more...

Adjectives:
starry, japanese, southern, large, small, juvenile, common, young, european, fried, big

Colors:
    olive,     sand,     beige,     brown,     gray, more...


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Similar:
stagger, fluke, summer flounder, flounderling, plaice, sand flounder, flounderer, bluefish, topknot, flattie, more...

Opposite:
swim, float, sail

Types:
dab, plaice, sole, halibut, turbot, grouper, sturgeon, more...

Phrases:
Winter flounder, summer flounder, yellowtail flounder, flounder around, flounder through, southern flounder, peacock flounder, Gulf flounder, righteye flounder, sand flounder, lefteye flounder, more...

Adjectives:
starry, japanese, southern, large, small, juvenile, common, young, european, fried, big

Colors:
    olive,     sand,     beige,     brown,     gray, more...



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