floundered
past simple and past participle offlounder
| 单词 | floundered |
| 释义 | floundered past simple and past participle offlounder flounder verb[I] uk/ˈflaʊn.dər/us/ˈflaʊn.dɚ/toexperiencegreatdifficultiesor becompletelyunabletodecidewhat to do or say next: Helostthe nextpageof hisspeechand flounderedaround/aboutfor a fewseconds. Although hisbusinesswas asuccess, hismarriagewas floundering. Richardsonresignedaschairman,leavingthecompanyfloundering. Experiencing difficulties
Examplesofflounderedfloundered In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Nodes containing only a satisfiable set of equality atoms and non-grounded negative literals are said to beflounderedand have no children. From theCambridge English Corpus An attempt by area gentlemen to gain a new charter for the town in 1675\\6 hadflounderedon the gentry's objections. From theCambridge English Corpus Efforts to diversify the economyflounderedas the exogenous shock of the early 1970s oil crisis impacted on the world economy. From theCambridge English Corpus The debatefloundered, unable to overcome the fuzziness of the premises. From theCambridge English Corpus As the crisis deepened and the industryfloundered, it became clear that individual approaches were hurting more than they were helping. From theCambridge English Corpus Other professional historians oftenflounderedfor lack of this sort of assistance. From theCambridge English Corpus Any node with a non-ground negative literal selected is a leaf of a tree, such a node is markedfloundered. From theCambridge English Corpus Their imperial ambitionflounderedbecause it was "inspired by a regional patriotism that failed to enlarge itself beyond its own limits". From theCambridge English Corpus The systemfloundered, however, when technological warfare advances meant that sailing ships were replaced with faster ships able to disable and sink vessels from an extended distance. From theCambridge English Corpus His political ambitions havefloundered. From theCambridge English Corpus In relatively short order, however, many of the new democracies undergoing market reforms appear to haveflounderedas a result, in large part, of political corruption. From theCambridge English Corpus They justflounderedalong as best they could. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The campaign could so easily haveflounderedwithout that support. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 That schemefloundered, andflounderedhopelessly, because it produced results regarded by serving soldiers and sailors as inequitable as between man and man. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 That was the atmosphere of panic, fear and intimidation that then existed as weflounderedaround wondering what could be done. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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