flunk
verb (informal, especially North American English)Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they flunk | |
| he / she / it flunks | |
| past simple flunked | |
| past participle flunked | |
| -ing form flunking |
- [transitive, intransitive] flunk (something)
to fail an exam, a test or a course （考试、测验等）失败，不及格 Extra ExamplesTopics Difficulty and failurec2, Educationc2He'd flunked every exam he'd ever sat. 他参加的所有考试都不及格。 The students who are worried usually aren't the ones who will flunk. 担心的学生通常不是会不及格的人。
- [transitive] flunk somebody
to make somebody fail an exam, a test, or a course by giving them a low mark 给（某人）不及格
Word Originearly 19th cent. (in the general sense ‘back down, fail utterly’; originally US): perhaps related to funk ‘state of fear or panic’ or to US flink ‘be a coward’, perhaps a variant of flinch.