flunk
verb/flʌŋk/
/flʌŋk/
(informal, especially North American English)Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they flunk | /flʌŋk/ /flʌŋk/ |
| he / she / it flunks | /flʌŋks/ /flʌŋks/ |
| past simple flunked | /flʌŋkt/ /flʌŋkt/ |
| past participle flunked | /flʌŋkt/ /flʌŋkt/ |
| -ing form flunking | /ˈflʌŋkɪŋ/ /ˈflʌŋkɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] flunk (something) to fail an exam, a test or a course
（考试、测验等）失败，不及格 - I flunked math in second grade.
我二年级时数学不及格。
Extra ExamplesTopics Difficulty and failurec2, Educationc2- He'd flunked every exam he'd ever sat.
他参加过的每一次考试都没有及格。 - The students who are worried usually aren't the ones who will flunk.
担心的学生通常不会是那些不及格的人。
- I flunked math in second grade.
- [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 - She's flunked 13 of the 18 students.
18 个学生她给了 13 个不及格。
- She's flunked 13 of the 18 students.
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.