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flounder
has definitions from the fields of zoology,chemistry,food
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[ verb ] walk with great difficulty
Synonyms Examples "He staggered along in the heavy snow" Used in print (Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)The man had come floundering aboard the flat-bottomed barge at the last instant , brandishing the flag_of_truce . Watson watched two of them flounder into the shallow water and listened to their voices beg shrilly . |
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[ verb ] behave awkwardly; have difficulties
Examples "She is floundering in college" Used in print (Tracts published by American Tract Society,...)Doubts thus inculcated left me floundering for_a_while and , like some higher critical friends , trying to continue to use the Bible as the Word_of_God while at_the_same_time holding it to have been subjected to a vast number of redactions and interpolations : Related terms |
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[ noun ] (chemistry,food) flesh of any of various American and European flatfish
Related terms flatfish turbot plaice sand_dab lemon_sole yellowtail_flounder |
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[ noun ] (zoology) any of various European and non-European marine flatfish
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