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[Flunk]
** English
*** Etymology
Alteration of [en], or perhaps a [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb] [en]
1. [en] Of a student, to fail a class; to not pass .
2. [en] Of a teacher, to deny a student a passing grade.
3. [en] To fail any challenge
4. [en] To shirk (a task or duty). < !--Webster 1913-->
5. To back out through fear . (Commonly in the phrase 'flunk it', the 'it' referring to a specific task avoided; sometimes without specific reference, describing a person's attitude to life in general.)
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|flunkable |flunkee |flunker |flunkout }}
**** Translations
[to fail]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [voor] [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] [Portugal]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [South America] [es] , [especially Central America] [es] , [Spain] [es] , [colloquial] [es] , [Venezuela] [es] , [Costa Rica] [es] , [Mexico] [es] , [Colombia] [es] , [Chile] [es] , [Peru] [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi] [to fail an examination]
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[to deny a passing grade]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- German: [de]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [South America] [es] , [specially Central America] [es] , [Spain] [es] , [es] [colloquial] , [Spain] [es] , [Venezuela] [es] , [Costa Rica] [es] , [Mexico] [es] , [es] [Ecuador] , [es]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
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*** See also
- [en]
[en]