flounder

Inflections of 'flounder' (n):

flounder: npl (Can be used as a collective plural—e.g. "Stocks of flounder are low due to overfishing.")

Principal Translations
Inglés		Español
flounder n	(fish) (pez)	platija nf
	(pez)	lenguado nm
	The fisherman caught a flounder.
	El pescador capturó una platija
flounder⇒ vi	(struggle physically in water, mud)	revolverse⇒ v prnl
		luchar⇒ vi
	The fish floundered in the mud as it tried to find water.
	El pez se revolvía en el fango intentado encontrar agua.
flounder vi	(struggle mentally) (en una conversación)	no saber qué decir, no saber qué responder loc verb
	(ante una pregunta)	quedarse en blanco loc verb
	Greg was floundering for a reply but couldn't come up with one.
	Greg no sabía qué responder y al final no dijo nada.
flounder vi	(have problems)	tener problemas loc verb
	(figurado)	trastabillar⇒, tropezar⇒ vtr
	(figurado)	avanzar a trompicones loc verb
	John floundered helplessly on his first day at work.
	John tuvo problemas en su primer día de trabajo.
flounder vi	(over words) (figurado)	perder el hilo loc verb
		quedarse sin palabras loc verb
	The politician started floundering when he was confronted about his drug habits.
	El político empezó a perder el hilo cuando se le confrontó con su consumo de drogas.

'flounder' aparece también en las siguientes entradas:

In the English description:

Spanish:

Collocations: [grilled, fried, baked] flounder, flounder are [typically, normally] found in, fishing for flounders, more...

Forum discussions with the word(s) "flounder" in the title:

Go to Preferences page and choose from different actions for taps or mouse clicks.

See Google Translate's machine translation of 'flounder'.