Entry Word: flounder

Function: verb

Meaning: 1 to make progress in a clumsy, struggling manner <unprepared choristers who floundered helplessly through the musical number>

Synonyms limp, lumber, plod, stumble, trudge

Related Words shamble, shuffle; wallow, welter; falter, lurch, reel, stagger, sway, teeter, totter; blunder, fumble, muddle

Near Antonyms coast, fly, glide, sail, zip, zoom

2 to move heavily or clumsily <the car floundered through the heavy wet snow, constantly getting stuck> — see lumber 1