Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to flounder
Participle: floundered
Gerund: floundering
Indicative
Present
| I | flounder |
| you | flounder |
| he;she;it | flounders |
| we | flounder |
| you | flounder |
| they | flounder |
Perfect
| I | have floundered |
| you | have floundered |
| he;she;it | has floundered |
| we | have floundered |
| you | have floundered |
| they | have floundered |
Past
| I | floundered |
| you | floundered |
| he;she;it | floundered |
| we | floundered |
| you | floundered |
| they | floundered |
Pluperfect
| I | had floundered |
| you | had floundered |
| he;she;it | had floundered |
| we | had floundered |
| you | had floundered |
| they | had floundered |
Future
| I | will flounder |
| you | will flounder |
| he;she;it | will flounder |
| we | will flounder |
| you | will flounder |
| they | will flounder |
Future Perfect
| I | will have floundered |
| you | will have floundered |
| he;she;it | will have floundered |
| we | will have floundered |
| you | will have floundered |
| they | will have floundered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | flounder |
| you | flounder |
| he;she;it | flounder |
| we | flounder |
| you | flounder |
| they | flounder |
Perfect
| I | have floundered |
| you | have floundered |
| he;she;it | have floundered |
| we | have floundered |
| you | have floundered |
| they | have floundered |
Imperfect
| I | floundered |
| you | floundered |
| he;she;it | floundered |
| we | floundered |
| you | floundered |
| they | floundered |
Pluperfect
| I | had floundered |
| you | had floundered |
| he;she;it | had floundered |
| we | had floundered |
| you | had floundered |
| they | had floundered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would flounder |
| you | would flounder |
| he;she;it | would flounder |
| we | would flounder |
| you | would flounder |
| they | would flounder |
Perfect
| I | would have floundered |
| you | would have floundered |
| he;she;it | would have floundered |
| we | would have floundered |
| you | would have floundered |
| they | would have floundered |
Imperative
| you | flounder |
| we | Let's flounder |
| you | flounder |
Verbs conjugated like 'flounder'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'flounder'
founder,
lounder,
blunder,
flinder,
flounce,
foulder,
launder,
plunder,
blinder,
blonden,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1592, perhaps an alteration of founder (q.v.), infl. by Du.
flodderen "to flop about," or native verbs in
fl- expressing clumsy motion.
2. Possibly from the noun. Probably a blend of flounce + founder or a blend of founder + blunder or from Dutch flodderen (“wade”). See other terms beginning with fl, such as flutter, flitter, float, flap, flub, flip. See: Dutch '
flodderen'.
Verbs referencing "flounder"
Swedish
fladdra.
Sample Sentences
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[...] her desperate retreat across the river just in the dusk of twilight. The gray mist of evening, rising slowly from the river, enveloped her as she disappeared up the bank, and the swollen current and floundering masses of ice presented a hopeless barrier between her and her pursuer. Haley therefore slowly and discontentedly returned to the little tavern, to ponder further what was to be done. The woman [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] over his eyes and nose quite unceremoniously, and he considers himself fairly extinguished; — child cries, and Cudjoe on the outside delivers animated addresses to the horses, who are kicking, and floundering, and straining under repeated cracks of the whip. Carriage springs up, with another bounce,—down go the hind wheels,—senator, woman, and child, fly over on to the back seat, his elbows encountering [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] We come to the spot, sink down in the mire nearly to the coach windows, tilt on one side at an angle of forty-five degrees, and stick there. The insides scream dismally; the coach stops; the horses flounder; all the other six coaches stop; and their four-and-twenty horses flounder likewise: but merely for company, and in sympathy with ours. Then the following circumstances occur.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] side at an angle of forty-five degrees, and stick there. The insides scream dismally; the coach stops; the horses flounder; all the other six coaches stop; and their four-and-twenty horses flounder likewise: but merely for company, and in sympathy with ours. Then the following circumstances occur.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] it at every possible angle; and through the broad chinks and crevices in the floor, the rapid river gleamed, far down below, like a legion of eyes. We had no lamps; and as the horses stumbled and floundered through this place, towards the distant speck of dying light, it seemed interminable. I really could not at first persuade myself as we rumbled heavily on, filling the bridge with hollow noises, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)