- be
- be (caught) between a rock and a hard place idiom
- be climbing the walls idiom
- be for the high jump idiom
- be/come up against a brick wall idiom
- embattled
- fall into something
- frying pan
- fumble
- fun
- jungle
- on a razor edge idiom
- out of the frying pan into the fire idiom
- pickle
- pressed
- prob
- rocky
- sticky
- strand
- weed
Meaning of flounder in English
flounder | American Dictionary
flounder verb [I] (MOVE AWKWARDLY)
flounder | Business English
floundering
adjective [ before noun ]
Examples of flounder
flounder
The examination of flounders for additional macro- and microparasites was undertaken in conjunction with the examination for metacercarial cysts.
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In addition, the different feeding habits employed by flounders in the upper and middle estuary affect this parameter to a certain extent.
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Digeneans require invertebrates as intermediate hosts to complete their life cycle and thus the distribution of invertebrates determines the presence of digeneans in flounders.
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An agent is said to be floundering if it stays in the sleep state forever.
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Other professional historians often floundered for lack of this sort of assistance.
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They subsequently remain within the flounders as they travel back upstream.
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Muscle squashes were carried out on a small subsample of the flounders used for the epidemiological survey.
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Nevertheless, the overriding fact remained that flounders at both locations were dominated, or co-dominated, by estuarine parasites.
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Third-stage larvae, fourth-stage larvae, immature and mature adults were found in flounders from the éresund throughout the year.
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In the experimentally infected flounders the worms survived and grew to maturity.
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Their imperial ambition floundered because it was "inspired by a regional patriotism that failed to enlarge itself beyond its own limits".
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Moreover, this can in turn lead to a specialised program that has a computed answer while the original program flounders.
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The system floundered, however, when technological warfare advances meant that sailing ships were replaced with faster ships able to disable and sink vessels from an extended distance.
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His political ambitions have floundered.
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In relatively short order, however, many of the new democracies undergoing market reforms appear to have floundered as a result, in large part, of political corruption.
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batmamak için çırpınmak, debelenmek, bocalamak…
patauger (péniblement)…
spartelen…
plácat se…
sprælle, fægte med arme og ben…
menggapai-gapai…
ตะเกียกตะกายฝ่า (น้ำ, โคลน)…
loạng choạng…
miotać się, plątać się, kuleć…
sprattla, tumla, rulla…
mengapa-gapai…
zappeln…
sprelle, kaste seg fram og tilbake…
борсатися…
барахтаться, пребывать в нерешительности, быть сбитым с толку…
