0 to move one’s legs and arms violently and with difficulty (in water, mud etc) -- loạng choạng
She floundered helplessly in the mud.
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.
His political ambitions have floundered.
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.
Moreover, this can in turn lead to a specialised program that has a computed answer while the original program flounders.
Their imperial ambition floundered because it was "inspired by a regional patriotism that failed to enlarge itself beyond its own limits".
In the experimentally infected flounders the worms survived and grew to maturity.
Third-stage larvae, fourth-stage larvae, immature and mature adults were found in flounders from the éresund throughout the year.
Nevertheless, the overriding fact remained that flounders at both locations were dominated, or co-dominated, by estuarine parasites.
