Synonyms of the word flounder


FLOUNDERFIGHT - FLATFISH - STAGGER - STRUGGLE - WALK

flounder

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

fight

  • v. (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
  • v. (intransitive) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
  • v. (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
  • v. (transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
  • n. An occasion of fighting.
  • n. (archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
  • n. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
  • n. (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
  • n. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
  • n. The will or ability to fight.
  • n. (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships.

flatfish

  • n. A fish of the order Pleuronectiformes, the adults of which have both eyes on one side and usually swim…

stagger

  • n. An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
  • n. (veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden…
  • n. Bewilderment; perplexity.
  • n. The spacing out of various actions over time.
  • n. (motorsport) The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It…
  • n. (aviation) The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one…
  • v. Sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
  • v. Doubt, waver, be shocked.
  • v. (transitive) Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different,…

struggle

  • n. Strife, contention, great effort.
  • v. To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
  • v. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

walk

  • v. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the…
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly…
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side…
  • v. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
  • v. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
  • v. (transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
  • v. (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
  • v. (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
  • v. (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
  • v. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
  • v. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet,…
  • v. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
  • v. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
  • v. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available…
  • n. A trip made by walking.
  • n. A distance walked.
  • n. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before…
  • n. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
  • n. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
  • n. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling…
  • n. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known…
  • n. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
  • n. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
  • n. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
  • n. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding…
  • n. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.

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