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Flounder vs. Founder — What's the Difference?

Flounder vs. Founder — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Flounder and Founder

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Flounder

Flounders are a group of flatfish species. They are demersal fish, found at the bottom of oceans around the world; some species will also enter estuaries.

Founder

A person who manufactures articles of cast metal; the owner or operator of a foundry
An iron founder

Flounder

To move clumsily or with little progress, as through water or mud.

Founder

A person who establishes an institution or settlement
He was the founder of modern Costa Rica

Flounder

To act or function in a confused or directionless manner; struggle
"Some ... floundered professionally, never quite deciding what they wanted to do" (Steve Olson). See Usage Note at founder1.
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Founder

Laminitis in horses, ponies, or other hoofed animals.

Flounder

The act of floundering.

Founder

(of a ship) fill with water and sink
Six drowned when the yacht foundered off the Cornish coast

Flounder

Any of various marine flatfishes chiefly of the families Bothidae and Pleuronectidae, including several important food fishes.

Founder

(of a horse or its rider) stumble or fall from exhaustion, lameness, etc.
Some of their horses foundered and damaged themselves in the stones of the riverbed

Flounder

A European species of flatfish having dull brown colouring with reddish-brown blotches; fluke, European flounder, Platichthys flesus.

Founder

Make (someone) very cold
It would founder you out there
Get a fire lit, I'm foundered

Flounder

(North America) Any of various flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae or Bothidae.

Founder

To sink below the surface of the water
The ship struck a reef and foundered.

Flounder

A bootmaker's tool for crimping boot fronts.

Founder

To cave in; sink
The platform swayed and then foundered.

Flounder

(intransitive) To act clumsily or confused; to struggle or be flustered.
He gave a good speech, but floundered when audience members asked questions he could not answer well.

Founder

To fail utterly; collapse
A marriage that soon foundered.

Flounder

(intransitive) To flop around as a fish out of water.

Founder

To stumble, especially to stumble and go lame. Used of horses.

Flounder

(intransitive) To make clumsy attempts to move or regain one's balance.
Robert yanked Connie's leg vigorously, causing her to flounder and eventually fall.

Founder

To become ill from overeating. Used of livestock.

Flounder

To be in serious difficulty.

Founder

To be afflicted with laminitis. Used of horses.

Flounder

A flatfish of the family Pleuronectidæ, of many species.

Founder

To cause to founder
A large wave foundered the boat.

Flounder

A tool used in crimping boot fronts.

Founder

See laminitis.

Flounder

The act of floundering.

Founder

One who establishes something or formulates the basis for something
The founder of a university.

Flounder

To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce.
They have floundered on from blunder to blunder.

Founder

One who founds or establishes (especially said of a company, project, organisation, state).
The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg

Flounder

Flesh of any of various American and European flatfish

Founder

(genetics) Someone for whose parents one has no data.

Flounder

Any of various European and non-European marine flatfish

Founder

The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.

Flounder

Walk with great difficulty;
He staggered along in the heavy snow

Founder

One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
A founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or printing types

Flounder

Behave awkwardly; have difficulties;
She is floundering in college

Founder

(veterinary medicine) A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.

Founder

To flood with water and sink.

Founder

(intransitive) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.

Founder

(intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.

Founder

To cause to flood and sink, as a ship.

Founder

(transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.

Founder

One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.

Founder

One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types.

Founder

A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh.

Founder

To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.

Founder

To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
For which his horse fearé gan to turn,And leep aside, and foundrede as he leep.

Founder

To fail; to miscarry.

Founder

To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.

Founder

Inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse

Founder

A person who founds or establishes some institution;
George Washington is the father of his country

Founder

A worker who makes metal castings

Founder

Fail utterly; collapse;
The project foundered

Founder

Sink below the surface

Founder

Break down, literally or metaphorically;
The wall collapsed
The business collapsed
The dam broke
The roof collapsed
The wall gave in
The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice

Founder

Stumble and nearly fall;
The horses foundered

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