flounder vs founder :

flounder or founder

As a verb, “founder” means “to fill with water and sink.” It is also used metaphorically of various kinds of equally catastrophic failures. In contrast, to flounder is to thrash about in the water (like a flounder), struggling to stay alive. “Flounder” is also often used metaphorically to indicate various sorts of desperate struggle. If you’re sunk, you’ve foundered. If you’re still struggling, you’re floundering.

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Definitions
  flounder
  • n  flesh of any of various American and European flatfish
  • n  any of various European and non-European marine flatfish
  • v  walk with great difficulty
  • v  behave awkwardly; have difficulties
    She is floundering in college
  founder
  • n  inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse
  • n  a person who founds or establishes some institution
  • n  a worker who makes metal castings
  • v  fail utterly; collapse
    The project foundered
  • v  sink below the surface
  • v  break down, literally or metaphorically
  • v  stumble and nearly fall
    the horses foundered
News & Articles
  flounder
  • Rollover facing changing tide
    The days of dropping a line and hooking a large flounder, pulling it from the teeming waters of Rollover Pass may soon be a thing of the past.
    June 16, 2013 - The Orange Leader
  • RFA flounder tournament was a success
    The first annual RFA Bass River Summer Flounder Tournament is now in the record books, and we can safely say that it was a grand success.
    June 13, 2013 - Asbury Park Press
  • RFA flounder tournament was a success
    The first annual RFA Bass River Summer Flounder Tournament is now in the record books, and we can safely say that it was a grand success.
    June 13, 2013 - Asbury Park Press
  founder
  • Ky. company founder giving up stake in settlement
    The founder of a now-bankrupt southern Kentucky oil and gas drilling firm will surrender all interest in the company as part of a settlement with a bankruptcy trustee that ends years of litigation with ...
    June 27, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
  • IKEA founder to return home 40 years after fleeing Swedish taxes
    STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Ingvar Kamprad, founder of furniture company IKEA, announced on Wednesday he plans to return home to Sweden 40 years after leaving the country to escape its high taxes. Kamprad, 87, said he would return from Switzerland before year-end and settle down on a farm outside of Almhult, a southern Swedish town where he founded IKEA 70 years ago and put Swedish "flat-pack ...
    June 26, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
  • IKEA Founder Ingvar Kamprad Moving Back to Sweden
    IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad moving back to native Sweden after 3 decades        
    June 26, 2013 - ABC News