0 present participle of flounder
1 to experience great difficulties or be completely unable to decide what to do or say next:
The verification methods used here can also be used to show that programs are free from (full) unification, occur-check, and floundering.
Second, treatment of floundering within negation is improved (it is often done poorly).
In the individual projects, specific theorems are given in the project assignment to keep the students from floundering.
We have also ignored floundering, which can occur as well as or instead of the other behaviours.
An agent is said to be floundering if it stays in the sleep state forever.
It is the programmer's responsibility to prevent agents from floundering.
The actors were floundering: they committed themselves to making strange noises, artificial and energetic gestures, but it was all curiously empty and unengaging.
It is corporeal but not floundering.
