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flunk

verb
🔊/flʌŋk/
🔊/flʌŋk/
 (informal, especially North American English)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they flunk
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he / she / it flunks
🔊/flʌŋks/
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past simple flunked
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past participle flunked
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-ing form flunking
🔊/ˈflʌŋkɪŋ/
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Phrasal Verbs
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  1. [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 Examples
    • He'd flunked every exam he'd ever sat.他参加过的每门考试都不及格。
    • The students who are worried usually aren't the ones who will flunk.担心的学生通常不是胆怯的学生。
    Topics Difficulty and failurec2, Educationc2
  2. [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。🔊🔊
    Topics Difficulty and failurec2, Educationc2
    3. 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.