Crossword clues for floundered
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flounder \Floun"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Floundered; p. pr. & vb. n. Floundering.] [Cf. D. flodderen to flap, splash through mire, E. flounce, v.i., and flounder the fish.] 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.
They have floundered on from blunder to blunder.
--Sir
W. Hamilton.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: flounder)
Usage examples of "floundered".
When the dragon considered himself sufficiently watered, he floundered out, flapping his wings mightily until the breeze brought the shower up the beach to F'nor who protested.
Garion floundered along behind him, his feet cracking the dead twigs underfoot embarrassingly until he began to catch the secret of it.
His great horse floundered with threshing legs, trying futilely to rise.
But as long as he occupied that exalted position, they all seemed to take an almost childlike delight in bringing him the most difficult, the most agonizing, and the most utterly insoluble problems and then happily sitting back with trusting smiles on their faces while he struggled and floundered with them.
Then, as she floundered around to meet his attack, he danced clear to regain the safety of the surrounding forest.
Then she, too, stepped off the quay, but floundered awkwardly as she sank to the knees in the dirty waters of the harbor.
He floundered, trying to get to his feet as the dragon bathed him in flames.
He floundered out into waist-deep water and then stepped off the edge of an unseen terrace lurking beneath the surface.
They floundered out into the now gently rolling waves, and one by one stepped off into deep water.
He floundered for a suitable way out of the challenge but Channa was Marci's best friend and Jeran just had to make Marci notice him.
Once she heard it, she also recognized the emergency code and floundered with her blankets to roll to the control panel at the edge of the sleep panel.
Iantine floundered, trying to organize his thoughts as well as his needs.
None ever floundered in between to disappear forever, and no beast in his wing sickened, leaving a man in dragonless exile from the Weyr, a part of him numb forever.
Lord Sigomal said while Oterel floundered over the implication that eyes were somehow inferior.
Corman floundered briefly and threw up his hands, recalling the time when he had not willingly supported Benden Weyr.