All floundered synonyms

verb floundered

• struggled — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
• thrashed — to beat soundly in punishment; flog.
• stumbled — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
• flapped — Simple past tense and past participle of flap.
• flailed — an instrument for threshing grain, consisting of a staff or handle to one end of which is attached a freely swinging stick or bar.
• flopped — to fall or plump down suddenly, especially with noise; drop or turn with a sudden bump or thud (sometimes followed by down): The puppy flopped down on the couch.
• blundered — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
• flummoxed — to bewilder; confound; confuse.
• groped — to feel about with the hands; feel one's way: I had to grope around in the darkness before I found the light switch.
• labored — of or relating to workers, their associations, or working conditions: labor reforms.
• lurched — Archaic. the act of lurking or state of watchfulness.
• muddled — to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
• plunged — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
• snafued — a badly confused or ridiculously muddled situation: A ballot snafu in the election led to a recount. Synonyms: snarl, bedlam, tumult, disarray, disorder, confusion, mess; foul-up. Antonyms: order, efficiency, calm.
• strove — simple past tense of strive.
• toiled — hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
• dithered — Simple past tense and past participle of dither.
• hesitated — to be reluctant or wait to act because of fear, indecision, or disinclination: She hesitated to take the job.
• faltered — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
• dawdled — to waste time; idle; trifle; loiter: Stop dawdling and help me with these packages!
• delayed — of or relating to a particle, as a neutron or alpha particle, that is emitted from an excited nucleus formed in a nuclear reaction, the emission occurring some time after the reaction is completed.